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THE  DINNER  GIVEN  TO 
C  AS  S    C TLB  E  RT  B  Y  ■ 
ANK  W  WO  OLWORTH 

APRIL   24^^  M  C  M  X  I  I  I 


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DINNER 

GIVEN  •  TO  •  CASS  •  GILBERT  •  ARCHITECT 
BY  •  FRANK  •  W  •  WOOLWORTH 
F  •  HOPKINSON  •  SMITH 

PRESIDING 


APRIL  •  24  •  1913 

THE  •  WOOLWORTH  •  BUILDING 

NEW  •  YORK 


MA 


Copyright,  191S,by 
HUGH  McATAMNEY 


MUNDER-THOMSEN  PRESS 
Baltimore  ::  New  York 


CONTENTS 

Page 

Introduction   15 

Addresses  by : 

F.  Hopkinson  Smith   29 

Frank  W.  Woolworth   35 

Cass  Gilbert   45 

Louis  J.  Horowitz   57 

William  Winter   65 

W.  U.  Hensel   75 

Patrick  Francis  Murphy   85 

Menu   98 

Speakers   97 

An  Appreciation  101 

Alphabetical  List  of  Guests  107 

Floor  Plan  of  Seating  Arrangement  121 

Guests  as  Arranged  by  Tables  125 

LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 

The  Building   11 

The  Hallway   17 

Portraits  of : 

F.  Hopkinson  Smith  facing  28 

Frank  W.  Woolworth  facing  32 

Cass  Gilbert  facing  42 

Louis  J.  Horowitz  facing  54 

William  Winter  facing  62 

W.  U.  Hensel  facing  72 

Patrick  Francis  Murphy  facing  82 

Woolworth  Building  by  Night  (Photogravure)  facing  98 


INTRODUCTION 


When,  on  the  morning  of  April  25,  1913,  the  news- 
papers reported  the  part  taken  the  previous  night 
by  President  Woodrow  Wilson  in  formally  opening 
the  Woolworth  Building,  a  question  that  instantly 
shaped  itself  in  the  minds  of  many  people  was — 
"Why  did  he  do  it?"  Their  astonishment  was  per- 
haps natural  enough.  The  Woolworth  Building,  as 
everybody  knew,  was  not  a  public  institution,  or 
even  a  semi-public  one,  but  was  an  ojffice-building 
erected  in  New  York  by  private  capital  and  avowedly 
as  a  money-making  enterprise.  Yet  the  President 
had  not  hesitated  to  participate  officially  and  most 
impressively  in  the  opening  ceremonies. 

These  centered  around  a  dinner  tendered  to  the 
architect,  Mr.  Cass  Gilbert,  by  the  owner  of  the  build- 
ing, Mr.  Frank  W.  Woolworth,  and  attended  by 
more  than  eight  hundred  specially  invited  guests. 
Promptly  at  half-past  seven  o'clock,  the  evening 
of  April  24,  Mr.  Woolworth,  Mr.  Gilbert,  and  the 
guests,  after  a  reception  on  the  beautiful  mezzanine 
floor,  assembled  on  the  new  building's  twenty-seventh 
story,  which  had  been  converted  for  the  occasion 
into  a  magnificent  banqueting-hall.  When  all  were 
seated  the  lights  were  gradually  lowered,  until  at 
last  the  hall  and  the  entire  building  were  in  almost 
total  darkness.    At  the  same  moment,  there  was 


flashed  to  President  Wilson  in  Washington  a  tele- 
graphic message,  announcing  that  everything  was 
in  readiness  for  him  to  open  the  building. 

The  President's  response  was  simple  yet  exceed- 
ingly dramatic.  All  that  he  did  was  to  press  a  but- 
ton connected  by  wire  with  the  building  in  distant 
New  York.  But  that  slight  pressure  of  his  finger 
had  a  remarkable  result.  For  it  set  in  motion  the 
dynamos  providing  the  lighting  power  for  the  new 
building,  and  instantly  eighty  thousand  electric 
lights  were  ablaze  from  the  tip  of  the  sky-challenging 
pinnacle  to  the  depths  of  the  sub-basement. 

In  the  banqueting-hall  the  eight  hundred  guests 
leaped  to  their  feet  with  an  irrepressible  cheer. 
Outside,  in  Broadway  and  historic  City  Hall  Park,  the 
thousands  who  had  been  patiently  awaiting  this  mo- 
ment, first  gasped,  then  shouted  their  admiration,  as 
the  wonderful  Woolworth  Building  sprang  into  full 
view  against  the  blackness  of  the  night.  Standing 
there,  gazing  up,  up,  up  to  the  summit  of  the  sixty- 
storied  edifice,  towering  in  silent  majesty  and  en- 
thralling beauty  over  the  lesser,  but  still  impressive, 
piles  of  lower  Manhattan  Island,  not  one  among  the 
multitude  of  fascinated  onlookers  failed  in  that  awe- 
inspiring  instant  to  understand  why  the  President  of 
the  United  Sates  had  consented  to  participate  in  the 
opening  ceremonies. 

It  was,  after  all,  something  far  more  than  a  mere 
office-building  at  which  they  were  gazing.  It  was 
the  highest  and  one  of  the  most  beautiful  structures 
ever  erected  for  the  daily  occupancy  of  man — the 
highest  structure  of  any  sort  in  the  world,  excepting 
only  the  Eiffel  Tower  in  Paris — and  it  was  a  structure 
erected  on  American  soil,  in  accordance  with  the 


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ideas  of  an  American  owner  and  an  American  archi- 
tect. In  its  lofty  Gothic  splendors  it  embodied  an 
almost  incredible  triumph  of  American  creative 
genius,  and  stood  forth  to  the  world  as  a  matchless 
memorial  to  the  spirit  of  American  enterprise,  prog- 
ress, and  achievement.  Consequently,  its  formal 
opening  was  properly  to  be  regarded  not  as  a  private 
or  local  aflfair,  but  as  a  public  event  of  importance  to 
the  whole  nation. 

This  was  the  consideration  that  induced  President 
Woodrow  Wilson  to  press  the  button  that  caused  the 
Woolworth  Building,  throughout  the  night  of  April 
24,  to  illumine  New  York  with  its  glow  of  golden 
glory.  And,  in  truth,  it  was  precisely  the  same  con- 
sideration that  brought  together,  as  Mr.  Wool  worth's 
guests,  one  of  the  most  remarkable  gatherings  of 
American  citizens  that  ever  attended  a  function  of 
this  kind. 

Among  the  eight  hundred  men  who  broke  bread 
that  April  evening  under  the  roof  of  the  Woolworth 
Building,  almost  every  profession  had  representa- 
tives. From  Washington,  in  response  to  invitations 
personally  extended  by  Mr.  Hugh  McAtamney,  Mr. 
Woolworth's  able  lieutenant  who  had  been  entrusted 
with  entire  charge  of  the  dinner  arrangements,  there 
came  on  a  Pennsylvania  special  train  which  Mr. 
Woolworth  had  provided,  more  than  a  hundred  Con- 
gressmen and  others  prominent  in  the  life  of  the  na- 
tion's capital.  Massachusetts  sent  its  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  while  the  Governors  of  New  York  and 
Rhode  Island  were  represented  by  their  chiefs  of 
staff.  Boston,  Providence,  and  other  New  England 
cities  contributed  a  strong  deputation  of  political 
leaders,  lawyers,  business  men,  and  educators.  Presi- 


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dents  of  national  and  savings  banks,  judges,  pub- 
licists, college  presidents,  professors,  scientists,  physi- 
cians, surgeons,  artists,  architects,  heads  of  insurance 
and  real  estate  firms,  manufacturers,  importers, 
ship-builders,  railroad  and  steamship  men,  engineers, 
builders,  and  advertising  men  united  to  swell  the 
ranks  of  the  guests  at  this  notable  dinner.  Litera- 
ture in  all  its  branches  was  conspicuously  represented 
by  well-known  publishers,  editors,  journalists,  his- 
torians, essayists,  novelists,  and  poets. 

In  short,  the  men  who  assembled  at  Mr.  Wool- 
worth's  invitation  to  celebrate  the  opening  of  his 
building  summed  up  in  themselves  and  in  superlative 
degree  the  varied  activities  and  attainments  of  our 
American  life  of  to-day.  Their  very  presence  in  the 
banqueting-hall  testified  eloquently  to  the  national 
significance  of  the  occasion.  To  be  sure,  there  were 
doubtless  some  among  them  who,  ere  they  took  their 
seats  at  the  hundred  tables  laid  for  their  accommo- 
dation, were  but  vaguely  conscious  of  the  truly 
marvelous  character  of  the  achievement  they  had 
been  invited  to  commemorate.  But  they  had  only 
to  glance  out  of  the  broad  windows  near  which  they 
were  seated  to  gain  an  instant  and  lasting  apprecia- 
tion of  its  greatness. 

Especially  was  this  true  of  the  guests  seated  on  the 
Park  Place  side  of  the  building.  Far  below  them, 
stretching  northward,  eastward,  westward,  they  saw 
the  roofs  of  the  homes,  churches,  workshops,  and 
playhouses  of  seven  million  people.  To  the  north- 
east thin  threads  of  light,  like  fairy  strands,  outlined 
the  bridges  to  Brooklyn;  while,  running  northwest, 
a  wider  band  traced  the  course  of  Broadway,  the 
greatest  street  in  the  world,  and  now  made  still 


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greater  by  the  completion  of  the  wonderful  building 
from  which  they  were  then  overlooking  New  York. 
Near  at  hand  loomed  the  huge  bulk  of  the  unfinished 
Municipal  Building;  and,  farther  north,  in  a  direct 
line,  the  Metropolitan  Tower,  a  worthy,  if  less  im- 
posing, companion  to  the  Woolworth  Tower  beneath 
which  the  dinner-guests  were  seated. 

Had  it,  indeed,  been  daytime,  and  had  they  made 
their  way  to  the  summit  of  the  Woolworth  Tower, 
the  wondrous  achievement  embodied  in  the  building 
which  it  crowns  would  have  been  forced  in  upon 
their  minds  even  more  strongly.  For  they  would 
then  have  beheld,  in  addition  to  the  brilliant  scenic 
and  color  effects  of  the  great  metropolis  lying  beneath 
them,  a  vast  outstretching  panorama  of  land  and  sea, 
mountain,  meadow,  verdant  valley,  silver  lake,  and 
flowing  stream,  with  cities,  towns,  and  hamlets  dot- 
ted numerously  roundabout.  Forty  miles  to  the 
southwest,  Princeton  and  its  famous  university 
would  have  been  visible;  forty  miles  to  the  north. 
West  Point,  the  nation's  cradle  of  military  genius; 
to  the  northwest,  more  than  forty-five  miles  away, 
their  eyes  would  have  rested  on  beautiful  Lake 
Hopatcong;  and,  turning  to  the  southeast,  they  could 
have  gazed  an  equal  distance  out  to  sea  and  watched 
the  coming  and  going  of  the  ocean  leviathans  with 
their  precious  freights. 

All  this  and  much  more,  had  it  been  day  instead 
of  night,  Mr.  Woolworth's  guests  could  have  seen 
from  the  summit  of  a  building  rising  nearly  eight 
hundred  feet  above  the  passing  throngs  on  Broadway 
— a  building  so  high  as  to  overtop  by  two  hundred 
feet  the  mighty  Pyramid  of  Cheops,  one  of  the  famed 
wonders  of  the  world;  a  building  so  massive  as  to 


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have  absorbed  more  than  twenty-five  thousand  tons 
of  steel  in  its  construction,  and  a  building  erected 
with  such  painstaking  regard  to  the  threefold  re- 
quirement of  strength,  convenience,  and  beauty 
that  its  cost  probably  exceeded  that  of  any  private 
building  in  the  world.  More  astonishing  still,  as  the 
architect,  Mr.  Gilbert,  stated  the  night  of  the  open- 
ing ceremonies : 

"There  was  no  financing  of  this  building.  Mr. 
Woolworth  has  paid  for  it  all  himself  as  he  went  along. 
His  bankers  tell  me  that  this  building  is  unique  here 
and  probably  so  throughout  the  country,  for  it  stands 
to-day  without  a  mortgage  on  it  or  a  dollar  of  indebt- 
edness." 

Small  wonder  that  after  such  a  statement  the  owner 
of  the  highest  office-building  in  the  world  was  inun- 
dated with  a  fresh  flood  of  congratulations  from  his 
admiring  guests.  Nor,  as  his  personal  friends  were 
well  aware,  had  Mr.  Woolworth's  share  in  the  up- 
raising of  this  regal  edifice  been  by  any  means  con- 
fined to  the  payment  of  the  construction  bills.  The 
idea  underlying  it — the  purpose  of  erecting  the  loftiest 
and  most  beautiful  building  ever  put  up  for  com- 
mercial uses — was  entirely  his  own;  and  from  first 
to  last,  he  had  actively  co-operated  with  the  archi- 
tect in  the  difficult  tasks  of  conception  and  execu- 
tion. Every  detail  of  exterior  and  interior  design, 
of  installation  and  decoration,  had  been  carefully 
scrutinized,  and  in  many  instances  had  been  suggested 
and  devised  by  him;  every  stage  in  the  building's 
growth  had  been  watched  with  a  vigilant  eye. 

Rightfully,  then,  on  the  evening  of  the  dinner,  Mr. 
Woolworth  was  a  supremely  happy  man — happy  in 
the  consciousness  of  the  realization  of  a  fondly 


cherished  dream,  and  happy  in  the  further  knowledge 
that  its  reahzation  was  the  crowning  triumph  of  a 
long,  arduous,  and  phenomenally  successful  business 
career.  Indeed,  altogether  apart  from  the  signifi- 
cance of  the  Woolworth  Building  as  a  marvelous 
memorial  to  American  creative  genius,  its  opening 
ceremonies  merited  observance  on  a  national  scale, 
if  only  for  the  reason  that  it  towered  to  the  sky  as  a 
superb  and  enduring  symbol  of  the  possibilities  open 
to  every  man  in  the  great  American  Republic,  no 
matter  how  handicapped  by  circumstances  of  birth 
or  early  fortune. 

And  it  thus  towered  with  reference  not  only  to 
the  personal  achievements  of  its  owner,  but  also  to 
the  career  of  its  architect,  the  guest  of  honor  at  the 
commemorative  banquet  of  which  this  volume  is 
designed  to  afford  a  permanent  record.  The  story 
of  Mr.  Woolworth's  rise  from  a  three-dollar-a-week 
errand-boy  to  one  of  America's  greatest  merchant 
kings  (a  story  told  in  detail  on  a  following  page)  finds 
a  striking  parallel  in  the  story  of  Mr.  Gilbert's  rise 
in  the  field  of  art.  Like  Mr.  Woolworth,  Mr.  Gil- 
bert began  life  under  conditions  that  gave  him  no 
advantage  over  the  average  American  boy,  and  if 
to-day  he  ranks,  as  he  undoubtedly  does,  among  the 
world's  foremost  architects,  he  can  truthfully  affirm 
that  he  owes  his  eminence  to  his  own  unremitting 
efforts. 

Born  November  24,  1859,  in  the  Ohio  town  of 
Zanesville;  boasting  on  his  father's  side  descent  from 
the  notable  Gilbert  family  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  time, 
and  inheriting  from  his  mother  the  solid  qualities 
that  go  with  a  combined  Quaker  and  Scotch-Irish 
ancestry,  Mr.  Gilbert  inherited  from  neither  paternal 


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nor  maternal  progenitors  much,  except  native  talent. 
His  father's  death,  which  occurred  in  1868,  shortly 
after  his  migration  from  Zanesville  to  the  then  Far 
West  of  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  brought  the  family- 
fortunes  to  a  somewhat  low  ebb,  but  did  not  prevent 
Cass  Gilbert,  thanks  to  the  loving  devotion  of  his 
mother,  from  obtaining  a  fairly  good  schooHng.  It 
did,  however,  make  necessary  the  abandonment  of 
a  cherished  project  of  attending  Princeton  University, 
and  after  a  year  in  a  small  Minnesota  college  he  en- 
tered the  office  of  a  local  architect. 

Precisely  as  Mr.  Woolworth,  starting  as  errand- 
boy  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  was  obliged  to  work 
for  a  time  without  drawing  a  penny  in  pay,  so  Mr. 
Gilbert  had  to  serve  a  long  and  financially  unremu- 
nerative  apprenticeship.  But  he  was  so  eager  to 
learn  architecture,  that  he  was  content  to  slave  many 
hours  a  day,  for  a  year  and  a  half,  without  earning  a 
single  cent.  When,  however,  at  the  end  of  that 
time  his  employer  offered  to  put  him  on  the  pay-roll 
at  the  princely  salary  of  twelve  dollars  a  month,  he 
rightly  protested.  Surely,  as  he  pointed  out,  he 
was  now  worth  more  than  that  to  any  architect.  In 
this  belief  he  sought  and  found  a  new  position —  and 
settled  down  to  earn  the  money  that  he  felt  was 
needed  to  enable  him  to  secure  the  technical  educa- 
tion without  which  he  could  never  hope  to  be  a 
really  first-class  architect. 

Pinching,  saving,  toiling  tirelessly  in  the  office  and 
in  the  field,  working  now  as  draftsman,  now  as  rod- 
man  for  a  railway  surveying  company,  he  was  just 
twenty  years  old  when  he  found  himself  in  possession 
of  a  sum  sufficient  to  give  him  a  single  year  in  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology.    There  he 

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specialized  in  architecture,  and  there,  crowding  two 
years'  work  into  the  only  year  he  could  spare,  he 
completed  his  studies  prize-winner  of  his  class!  An- 
other period  of  toilsome  effort  with  a  surveying  party 
followed,  and  after  this — again  on  his  hard-earned 
savings — a  splendid  year  of  study  in  Europe,  a  year 
of  desultory,  but  diligent  knocking-about  in  Italy, 
France,  and  England,  making  notes  and  sketches  of 
the  beauties  of  Old  World  architecture. 

Thence  back  to  America  to  begin  the  actual  prac- 
tice of  his  profession,  and  to  bring  to  the  land  of  his 
birth  a  wealth  of  new  architectural  ideas  and  ideals. 
It  would  be  tedious  to  attempt  even  to  enumerate 
here  the  many  beautiful  buildings  with  which  the 
name  of  Cass  Gilbert  has  been  associated  since  he 
first  gained  nation-wide  recognition  by  winning  the 
competition  for  the  Minnesota  State  Capitol  at  St. 
Paul — a  building  which,  as  erected  in  accordance 
with  Mr.  Gilbert's  plans,  has  been  described  by  the 
painter  and  critic,  Kenyon  Cox,  as  "a  vast  piece  of 
sculpture,  on  which  the  light  falls  as  caressingly  as 
upon  the  white  face  of  the  Venus  of  Milo.  Seen  at  a 
distance,"  Mr.  Cox  adds,  "it  seems  of  the  colors  and 
almost  of  the  very  substance  of  the  sky,  into  which 
it  melts  like  a  snow-peak  on  the  horizon." 

These  words,  as  everyone  who  has  seen  the  Wool- 
worth  Building  must  appreciate,  might  be  appHed 
with  even  greater  force  to  Mr.  Gilbert's  latest  crea- 
tion. It  is  a  veritable  fairy  palace,  such  as  we  have 
all  dreamed  about  in  childhood — a  dream  now  happily 
come  true  through  the  genius  of  two  typical  Ameri- 
can conquerors  of  success  in  the  world  of  business  and 
the  world  of  art. 


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Surely  such  a  building  with  such  a  history  stands 
as  a  majestic  symbol  of  the  marvelous  possibilities 
open  to  American  manhood  at  its  best;  stands,  that 
is  to  say,  as  a  national  monument,  in  the  dedication 
exercises  of  which  the  President  of  the  United  States 
might  well  have  felt  proud  to  take  part.  Surely,  too, 
the  more  detailed  account  of  its  genesis,  evolution, 
and  completion,  as  told  in  the  addresses  on  the  pages 
that  follow,  amply  deserves  a  close  and  thoughtful 
reading. 

H.  Addington  Bruce. 


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THE  •  ADDRESS  •  OF 
MR  •  F  •  HOPKINSON  •  SMITH 
TOASTMASTER 


The  Toastmaster:  In  the  days  of  the  Pharaohs 
men  built  monuments  to  cover  dead  things — ^princi- 
pally kings. 

In  the  Middle  Ages  men  locked  their  money  in  strong 
boxes  or  hid  it  in  caves  and  stood  over  it  with  a  club. 

To-day  the  only  body  of  men  who  hide  money  so 
that  it  is  of  no  use  to  anyone  are  the  gentlemen  con- 
trolling our  government  funds,  who  hide  it  away  in 
cotton  bags  or  rack  it  up  on  pine  shelves,  in  the  vaults 
of  our  several  sub-treasuries.  This  is  no  doubt  im- 
portant on  the  theory  that  it  is  good  to  put  away 
something  for  a  rainy  day  and  on  the  other  theory 
that  when  an  outside  nation  concludes  to  take  a 
crack  at  us  we  may  be  in  a  better  position  to  crack 
back.  It  is  also  of  value  in  persuading  our  people 
that  a  small  sheet  of  wood  pulp  properly  signed  is  as 
good  as  a  gold  dollar,  properly  stamped. 

Outside  of  these  treasury  dogs,  most,  if  not  all,  of 
the  men  controlling  very  large  sums  of  money  are 
distinguished  by  totally  different  policies. 

One  whose  fortune  runs  into  the  millions  opens 
the  flood-gates  of  expenditure,  by  first  disinheriting 
himself,  and  then  providing  for  the  continuous  foun- 
dation and  support  of  various  institutions  of  learning, 
including  libraries  and  art  galleries. 

Another  endows  universities,  provides  enormous 
sums  for  medical  research,  sustains  hospitals  and 
asylums  and  gives  work  to  tens  of  thousands  of  men. 

A  third  builds,  endows  and  stocks  a  museum  full 
of  priceless  treasures,  Spain  being  the  chief  loser,  and 
throws  it  wide  open  to  the  passerby. 

A  fourth  runs  a  line  of  concrete  arches  for  miles 
out  into  the  blue  Caribbean  Sea,  bringing  the  tropics 
within  a  day's  journey  of  our  ice  and  snow. 

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Another  who  has  but  lately  joined  the  vast  majority, 
in  addition  to  countless  and  continued  acts  of  kind- 
ness with  his  coffers  wide  open,  his  hand  never  stayed 
from  giving,  leaves  behind  a  monument  which  will 
last  as  long  as  any  other  of  his  time;  namely,  the 
world-wide  belief  in  the  integrity  of  the  American 
character  as  exemplified  in  his  own  stern,  relentless, 
uncompromisingly  honest  life. 

This  view  of  the  benefits  accruing  to  the  Republic 
by  reason  of  the  accumulations  heretofore  referred  to, 
while  general  among  thinking  men,  is  not  universal. 
The  attacks  on  our  rich  men  are  constant — quite 
persistent  of  late  and  from  a  high  quarter.  The 
criticisms  are  various,  reflecting  on  the  integrity  of 
the  owners,  of  their  baleful  influence  on  the  growing 
generation  and  particularly  on  the  fact  that  they 
crush  out  the  smaller  men,  their  motto  being  '*The 
devil  take  the  hindermost,"  not  remembering  that 
the  devil  ought  to  take  the  hindermost  in  a  country 
like  ours,  where  every  opportunity  is  given  a  man  to 
succeed  and  where  those  who  lag  behind  and  whine 
are  those  who  have  neither  the  courage  nor  the  ability 
to  fight  their  way  to  the  front. 

Of  late  a  new  man  has  come  to  the  front.  The 
criticisms  indulged  in  by  the  unthinking,  the  dis- 
gruntled and  the  ignorant  as  to  the  means  by  which 
other  reservoirs  of  like  magnitude  have  been  filled, 
are  pointless  in  his  case. 

Neither  the  freshets  of  speculation,  the  downpour 
of  good  luck,  nor  the  bursting  of  some  hard-pressed 
dam  above  his  source  of  supply,  whose  water  he  was 
fortunate  enough  to  impound  before  it  had  run  to 
waste,  ever  added  a  single  gallon  to  his  sum  total. 

What  filled  it  to  the  brim  and  running  over  were 


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millions  of  rain  drops  during  a  shower  of  continued 
success  lasting  thirty  years.  Just  a  little  at  a  time 
and  never  failing — only  this  and  nothing  more. 

An  all-round  American,  this  man;  born  on  a  farm 
up  our  State ;  clerk  behind  the  counter  of  a  cross-road 
country  store  the  year  he  voted;  without  capital, 
without  friends  at  first;  working  eighteen  hours  out 
of  the  twenty-four  and  still  at  it.  What  happened 
when  his  reservoir  began  to  spill  over  its  edges?  You 
have  only  to  look  around  you  and  see. 

And  if  the  beauty  of  the  interior  below  where  we 
sit  has  not  satisfied  you,  please  step  down  to  the 
sidewalk  and  look  straight  up  until  you  get  the  roof 
of  your  mouth  sun-burnt,  while  your  eyes  follow,  as 
they  would  the  flight  of  a  rocket,  the  upward  spring 
of  that  wonderful  Gothic  tower,  its  apex  piercing  the 
blue. 

A  thing  of  beauty  this — a  lasting  monument  to  a 
plain  farmer  boy  who  kept  ahead  of  the  procession, 
close  up  to  the  band,  and  an  example  to  every  Amer- 
ican lad  to  go  and  do  likewise.  Withal  a  marvelous 
contribution  to  his  adopted  city — one  more  of  the 
architectural  triumphs  of  our  time. 

Gentlemen,  I  have  the  honor  to  present  to  you  our 
generous  and  distinguished  host,  Mr.  Frank  W.  Wool- 
worth.  (Prolonged  applause  and  cheering,) 


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THE  •  ADDRESS  •  OF 
MR  •  FRANK  •  W  •  WOOLWORTH 


Mr.  Chairman,  Gentlemen  and  Friends:  I  thank 
you  for  accepting  my  invitation  to  do  honor  to  one 
of  the  greatest  architects  in  this  world.  (Applause.) 

I  beg  to  make  a  few  apologies.  This  room  in  which 
we  are  now  assembled  was  never  intended  for  a  ban- 
quet of  this  nature,  and  I  trust  that  you  will  pardon 
me  for  selecting  such  an  inconvenient  place.  But 
I  knew  that  some  of  you  would  like  to  see  what  kind 
of  a  building  Cass  Gilbert  put  up.  (Applause.) 

Before  going  any  farther  I  would  like  to  call  special 
attention  to  Mr.  Hugh  McAtamney,  who  has  been  un- 
tiring in  his  efforts  to  make  this  dinner  a  success.  I 
trust  you  will  overlook  any  inconvenience  you  may 
have  been  put  to  on  account  of  the  unusual  place,  and 
I  congratulate  Mr.  Hugh  McAtamney  on  his  success 
in  this  stupendous  task.  I  want  everyone  in  this  room 
to  know  who  this  man  is.  Mr.  Hugh  McAtamney, 
stand  up.  (Mr.  McAtamney  stood  up  and  was  greeted 
with  applause.) 

I  desire  to  make  another  apology  for  speaking  to 
you  at  all.  As  you  all  know,  I  am  not  a  public  speaker, 
and  have  never  made  a  public  speech  of  any  account 
in  my  life.  What  made  this  building  possible  ?  Did 
you  ever  think  of  that?  Twenty-one  years  of  my  life 
were  spent  on  a  farm.  On  March  24, 1873,  over  forty 
years  ago,  I  w^ent  to  work  to  learn  the  dry  goods 
business  in  Watertown,  New  York,  with  Moore  & 
Smith.  I  am  very  thankful  to-day  to  my  employers. 
They  taught  me  the  first  lesson  in  my  mercantile 
career,  and  what  little  success  I  have  made  in  the 
mercantile  world  I  ow^e  to  them.  (Applause.)  Gentle- 
men, these  two  men  are  here  to-night,  and  I  want 
you  all  to  know  them.  Mr.  Moore  and  Mr.  Smith, 
stand  up  and  show  yourselves.  (Mr.  Moore  and  Mr, 


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Smith  stood  up  and  received  a  great  ovation,)  They 
are  two  of  the  people  who  helped  to  make  this  build- 
ing possible. 

I  do  not  wish  to  be  egotistical,  but  if  I  have  had 
any  ability  at  all  in  the  past,  it  has  been  in  my  selec- 
tion of  good  generals  as  managers  of  the  httle  business 
that  I  started.  It  was  a  little  business.  It  com- 
menced with  a  five-cent  nickel  piece.  The  first 
manager  that  I  selected  after  I  had  run  the  first  store 
successfully  was  a  man  by  the  name  of  C.  S.  Wool- 
worth.  I  believe  they  call  him  my  brother.  C.  S. 
Woolworth,  please  stand  up.  (Mr,  C.  S.  Woolworth 
then  arose  amidst  great  applause,) 

The  gentlemen  seated  at  a  table  right  over  there, 
and  some  of  the  principal  men  at  that  table  are  now 
behind  me,  are  those  that  are  responsible  for  my 
financial  success.  They  helped  to  collect  the  nickels 
and  dimes  that  have  gone  into  the  building,  and 
they  also  helped  to  make  the  building  possible. 
(Applause,) 

Seated  at  those  tables  right  over  there  in  front  of 
me  are  gentlemen  from  whom  I  have  made  a  great 
many  purchases  in  years  gone  by  and  it  is  a  pleasure 
to  me  to  greet  these  gentlemen  here  with  us  to-night, 
and  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  they  have  been 
selling  us  goods  and  making  money  from  us  they 
have  done  their  duty  and  they  have  helped  to  make 
this  building  possible. 

When  I  moved  into  the  City  of  New  York  in  July, 
1886,  my  first  bank  account  was  opened  with  the 
bank  that  is  now  the  Irving  National  Bank  (applause). 
The  account  was  so  small  that  the  officials  hesitated  to 
take  it,  although  I  was  well  introduced  (laughter).  I 
soon,  however,  became  a  director  in  that  institution. 


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and  through  the  influence  of  the  oflBcers  and  directors 
of  this  bank,  which  had  grown  to  very  large  propor- 
tions in  the  meantime,  I  was  induced  to  erect  a  small 
building  on  the  corner  of  Park  Place  and  Broadway — 
the  place  where  I  now  stand  {laughter),  and  I  was  sure 
of  one  good  tenant  besides  the  corporation  with  which 
I  am  connected.  (Applause,)  You  have  seen  the 
banking  quarters  down  below  that  they  will  occupy 
in  this  building.  This  bank  was  also  one  of  the 
factors  that  made  this  building  possible,  and  the 
directors  and  officers  of  that  bank  are  now  seated  at 
the  tables  located  right  down  here,  and  I  am  very 
sorry  you  cannot  see  them.  I  would  like  to  have  the 
President  of  that  bank,  Mr.  Rollin  P.  Grant,  stand 
up  and  show  himself.  (Applause,) 

There  is  one  gentleman  we  must  not  forget,  and 
that  is  Mr.  Lewis  E.  Pierson  (great  applause),  formerly 
President  of  the  Irving  National  Bank.  He  was  of 
great  assistance  to  me  and  my  assistants  in  locating 
the  site  of  this  building. 

Edward  J.  Hogan  (great  applause)  was  the  real 
estate  broker  who  was  so  successful  in  securing  the 
property  this  building  rests  upon;  and  it  required 
strenuous  efforts  on  his  part  to  assemble  seven  dif- 
ferent properties  into  one  large  plot  of  ground.  He 
afterwards  became  the  successful  renting  agent,  and 
has  succeeded  beyond  all  expectation,  and  has  put  it 
on  a  good  financial  basis.  (Great  applause,)  Gentle- 
men, I  would  like  to  have  you  all  know  Mr.  Hogan. 
Mr.  Hogan,  please  stand  up.  (Great  applause,) 

One  of  the  first  things  an  owner  who  expects  to 
erect  a  building  must  do,  after  he  has  secured  his 
property,  is  to  secure  the  services  of  an  architect. 
Some  of  the  greatest  architects  of  this  country  were 


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anxious  and  ready  and  willing  to  do  this  work. 
{Laughter  and  applause,)  They  were  all  good  archi- 
tects, at  least  nearly  all  of  them  that  applied  for 
this  proposition;  but  it  required  an  extraordinary 
architect  to  put  up  a  structure  of  this  nature.  I  have 
never  regretted  my  choice  of  the  guest  who  honors 
us  this  evening,  Mr.  Cass  Gilbert.  {Great  applause,) 
Mr.  Cass  Gilbert,  stand  up.  {Great  and  continued 
applause.)  But  this  great  architect  was  a  very  great 
architect  before  I  discovered  him.  {Laughter,)  He 
has  built  some  enormous  and  magnificent  and  artistic 
buildings  before.  Look  at  the  Capitol  of  Minnesota. 
Look  at  the  West  Street  Building.  {Applause,)  Look 
at  the  Custom  House.  {Applause.)  These  are  some 
of  the  reasons  why  he  was  selected,  because  he  had 
done  great  work  before  he  ever  touched  this  building. 
However,  he  is  a  greater  architect  to-day  than  he 
ever  was.  {Great  and  continued  applause.)  I  have 
been  congratulated  time  and  time  again  on  the 
beauties  of  this  building,  but  it  is  not  necessary  for 
me  to  go  into  details  in  regard  to  this  building,  as  the 
building  speaks  for  itself.  {Great  and  continued  ap- 
plause.) 

After  selecting  a  successful  architect,  it  was  neces- 
sary to  get  a  contractor  big  enough,  broad  enough, 
and  with  financial  ability  enough,  to  carry  such  a 
structure  to  a  success.  I  was  fortunate  in  getting  the 
Thompson-Starrett  Company  {great  applause)  to  take 
this  responsibility,  which  they  have  done.  The 
foundations  were  laid  by  The  Foundation  Company; 
the  steel  commenced  to  show  itself  above  the  side- 
walk November  15,  1911;  and  the  first  of  July, 
1912,  the  flag  was  flown  in  the  breeze  at  the  top 
pinnacle  of  the  tower.  {Great  applause.)  That  is  the 


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kind  of  men  that  do  business  in  a  scientific,  methodical 
and  dihgent  way.  I  wish  you  all  to  recognize  the 
President  of  that  company.  I  therefore  ask  Mr. 
Horowitz,  the  President  of  that  company,  to  stand  up 
and  show  himself.  (Great  applause.) 

Now,  gentlemen,  I  could  go  on  and  tell  you  about 
all  the  sub-contractors,  of  the  wonderful  work  they 
have  done  through  Mr.  Horowitz's  administration;  the 
timber  and  everything  that  goes  together  to  make 
this  building  possible  was  assembled  systematically, 
and  every  piece  of  steel,  every  stone,  every  brick, 
everything  came  to  its  place  in  time.  That  is  the 
reason  why  this  building  was  erected  so  quickly. 

I  don't  want  to  worry  you  any  longer  with  any 
more  of  my  remarks.  I  know  you  are  getting  weary 
of  them,  but  I  have  a  secret  in  my  hand  here  which  I 
wish  to  tell  you.  You  are  not  supposed  to  tell  any- 
body outside  of  this  room.  (Laughter,)  It  has  been  a 
great  speculation  on  the  part  of  everybody  as  to  the 
exact  height  of  this  building.  When  Mr.  Cass  Gilbert 
asked  me  how  high  this  building  should  be  I  told  him 
750  feet.  He  questioned  me;  he  said  *'Am  I  limited 
to  750  feet?"  (Laughter,)  I  said,  *'That  is  the  mini- 
mum." (Laughter  and  applause.)  He  said  "Will  you 
object  if  I  make  it  a  few  feet  higher.^"  I  said  "Not  in 
the  least,  not  in  the  least."  Time  went  on;  he  got 
to  work  with  his  superintendents,  who,  by  the  way, 
are  some  of  the  finest  men  in  New  York.  The 
assistants  that  Mr.  Gilbert  has  in  his  office  are  men 
who  can  be  depended  upon  absolutely ;  and  I  wish  to 
give  them  honor  at  this  meeting  (applause),  as  well 
as  to  give  honor  to  the  men  who  have  been  under 
Mr.  Horowitz,  for  they  have  done  justice  to  him  and 
to  everybody  else.  (Applause.) 


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Now,  in  regard  to  the  height  of  this  building :  When 
I  returned  from  Europe  last  September  I  asked  the 
architect  of  this  building  how  high  it  was.  I  had  heard 
rumors.  I  had  received  a  few  letters  while  I  was  in 
Europe,  and  one  of  them  astounded  me  by  saying  that 
the  building  was  to  be  770  feet  high.  I  did  not  believe 
it.  I  did  not  believe  Mr.  Gilbert  would  take  advan- 
tage of  me  like  that.  Finally,  when  I  came  back  and 
asked  him  how  high  the  building  was  (I  wanted  to 
know),  he  said  "I  cannot  tell  you  within  a  few  inches, 
but,  as  nearly  as  I  can  figure,  it  is  787  feet  high. 
{Laughter  and  applause.)  Gentlemen,  this  building  con- 
tinued to  grow.  I  couldn't  understand  why.  They 
were  fooling  me  all  the  time.  Finally,  about  a  week 
ago,  I  became  disgusted  in  trying  to  find  out  the 
height  of  this  building,  and  I  advised  the  architect  to 
employ  a  corps  of  engineers  to  measure  it  absolutely. 
I  have  those  figures  before  me  to-night,  and  perhaps 
it  might  be  interesting  for  you  to  know  the  exact 
height  of  this  building. 

On  the  Park  Place  corner,  which  is  right  here  on 
this  corner,  from  the  sidewalk  to  the  top  of  the  tower 
is  791  feet  and  one-half  inch.  {Laughter  and  applause.) 

On  the  Barclay  Street  corner,  it  is  792  feet. 
On  the  Broadway  front  it  is  791  feet  6  inches. 
On  the  Park  Place  side,  at  the  entrance  in  Park 
Place,  it  is  792  feet  3  inches. 

Op  the  Barclay  Street  entrance  it  is  793  feet  9 
inches. 

Those  figures  make  an  average  height  of  the  tower 
of  792  feet  1  inch. 

The  foundations  of  this  building  are  121  feet  below 
the  sidewalk  line,  to  bed  rock.  Therefore,  from  the 


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bottom  of  the  foundations  to  the  top  of  the  tower 
is  913  feet  and  1  inch.  (Applause.) 

And  the  height  of  the  tower  above  sea  level,  high 
tide,  is  947  feet  2  inches. 

Now,  having  determined  the  height  of  the  building, 
there  have  been  a  great  many  rumors  and  estimates 
in  regard  to  how  many  stories  high  the  Woolworth 
Building  is.  So  I  determined  to  know  for  myself, 
and  on  one  fine  day  I  went  to  the  very  pinnacle  of 
the  tower  and  walked  down  from  that  exalted  height 
to  the  sub-basement  of  the  building.  The  building 
has  been  known  as  a  55-story  building,  but  I  discov- 
ered that  the  architect,  or  somebody,  had  omitted 
five  stories  from  their  calculations,  and  the  building 
as  it  stands  today  is  60  stories  high,  58  stories  up  to 
the  observation  tower,  and  the  observation  tower  is 
750  feet  above  the  pavement.  Of  course,  it  would  have 
been  easy  to  have  made  this  building  79  stories  high, 
allowing  10  feet  to  a  floor,  but,  as  you  know,  there  is 
no  floor  in  the  Woolworth  Building  less  than  11  feet 
high,  and  some  of  them  are  over  20  feet  high.  It  is 
very  conservative  in  saying  that  the  actual  number 
of  stories  in  this  building  is  60,  and  it  will  hereafter 
be  known  as  a  60-story  building. 

Now,  gentlemen,  I  only  illustrate  to  you  how  the 
architect,  and  everybody  else,  has  been  trying  to 
fool  me  on  the  height  of  this  building. 

But  I  don't  want  to  take  up  any  more  of  your 
time;  I  have  said  enough.  The  Toastmaster  told  me 
he  would  only  allow  me  three  minutes  (laughter); 
finally  he  compromised  at  eight  minutes.  Now  I  don't 
know  how  long  I  have  spoken;  perhaps  an  hour. 

Gentlemen,  I  thank  you  from  the  bottom  of  my 
heart  for  coming  here  to  welcome  Mr.  Gilbert  to- 
night. (Long  applause,) 


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The  Toastmaster:  It  is  rather  difficult  to  intro- 
duce the  next  speaker.  We  can  well  understand  our 
host's  attitude  toward  him.  He  dreamed  a  dream  and 
awoke,  and  the  dream  came  true — so  he  gives  him  a 
dinner. 

If  I  had  my  way  I  would  inaugurate  a  series  of 
dinners,  all  over  the  country,  in  all  the  principal 
towns  and  cities — that  course  being  the  more  conven- 
ient for  the  thousands  of  our  citizens  who  would  like 
to  thank  him  in  their  hearts  for  this  monument  of  his 
genius. 

The  feeling  one  has  for  a  genius  is  peculiar,  and  the 
ways  of  expressing  it  but  few.  The  story  of  Charles  V. 
and  the  great  master  Titian  illustrates  it  best  to  my 
mind. 

Charles  V.  came  into  the  painter's  studio  while  the 
master  was  at  work.  Titian  dropped  a  brush; 
Charles  V.  stooped  and  picked  it  up.  Titian,  horror- 
stricken,  said,  "Your  Majesty!"  in  great  surprise. 
"No,"  said  the  monarch,  ''Your  Majesty!"  and 
handed  back  the  brush. 

Gentlemen,  I  have  the  honor  to  introduce  Mr. 
Gilbert.    {Continued  applause,) 


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THE  •  ADDRESS  •  OF 
MR  •  CASS  •  GILBERT 


Mr.  Toastmaster,  Mr.  Woolworth,  gentlemen:  I 
thank  you  most  heartily  for  your  generous  greeting. 
Mr.  Woolworth,  I  cannot  thank  you  enough  for  the 
extraordinary  honor  that  you  have  conferred  upon 
me  in  inviting  this  distinguished  company  here  to- 
night. 

When  you  told  about  the  height  of  this  building 
I  was  filled  at  first  with  a  feeling  of  embarrassment 
which  for  a  time  almost  became  remorse;  but  had 
I  known  your  own  point  of  view  as  well  two  years 
ago  as  I  know  it  to-day,  I  am  afraid  we  would  not 
have  stopped  at  791  feet  and  one-half.  {Laughter.) 

Your  reference  to  the  engineers  amused  me  im- 
mensely. We  architects  and  builders  thought  we  were 
erecting  a  building  that  would  be  possible  of  accurate 
measurement,  and  that  the  measurements  would  be 
the  same  in  all  cases.  I  judge  from  their  statement 
that  the  building  is  lop-sided  {Laughter,)  If  that  is 
the  case,  I  shall  decline  to  sign  the  last  certificate 
for  the  Thompson-Starrett  Company  until  they 
straighten  it  up.  It  reminds  me  a  good  deal  of  my 
friend  George  B.  Post's  story  about  a  wonderful  pal- 
ace in  India.  There  was  a  colonel  of  the  Indian  army 
who  returned  to  England  after  many  years  service  in 
India.  He  was  in  the  habit  of  telling  stories  after 
dinner,  and  those  stories  took  on  a  rather  extraordi- 
nary and  perhaps  an  exaggerated  form,  until  his 
valet,  who,  following  what  I  am  told  is  an  English 
custom  always  stood  behind  him  at  dinner,  reminded 
him  one  evening  when  he  was  dressing  that  perhaps 
he  was  losing  his  reputation  for  credibility.  So  it 
was  arranged  that  if  he  told  any  such  extraordinary 
stories  again  his  valet  would  tap  him  on  the  shoulder, 
or  cough,  or  do  something,  and  then  he  would  modify 


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the  story.  One  night  after  dinner  in  a  country  house 
the  old  colonel  began.  They  were  then  talking  of 
palaces  in  India  and  extraordinary  buildings  they  had 
seen.  He  started  to  describe  a  crystal  palace,  with  its 
gorgeous  interior,  lined  with  wonderful  mirrors,  orna- 
mented with  mother-of-pearl,  in  silver  and  mosaic, 
and  all  the  wonders  of  the  Orient.  His  valet  coughed 
twice,  and  finally  tapped  him  on  the  shoulder.  The 
old  gentleman  was  about  to  give  the  size  of  that 
building  when  he  got  this  little  signal;  and  so  in 
order  to  be  moderate  about  it  he  said,  ''And  would 
you  believe  me?  There  was  a  room  in  that  palace 
that  was  the  most  extraordinary  room  you  ever  saw 
in  your  life.  Why,  gentlemen,  that  room,  I  will  give 
you  my  word,  was  a  mile  long."  Whereat  there  was 
another  tap  on  his  shoulder,  "And, ' '  he  said, ''bless  my 
soul,  it  was  only  three  feet  wide."  (Laughter,)  He 
averaged  it  up. 

Now,  Mr.  Woolworth  has  ascribed  to  me  certain 
merits  which  I  do  not  possess.  Mr.  Hopkinson  Smith 
has  been  kind  enough  to  hang  the  garlands  of  his 
unmatched  oratory  (laughter)  upon  a  rusty  nail  driven 
in  the  wall,  but  I  want  to  take  you  into  my  confidence : 
the  real  architect  of  this  building  is  F.  W.  Woolworth. 
(Applause,)  He  has  hitched  us  to  his  car.  He  has 
sat  on  the  front  seat  and  held  the  reins,  and,  in  the 
early  stages  of  the  enterprise,  and  all  through  it, 
barring  only  the  brief  time  of  his  absence  in  Europe, 
there  was  no  detail  that  did  not  have  Mr.  Wool- 
worth's  personal  supervision,  and  in  many  cases,  I 
will  admit  now,  somewhat  to  my  temporary  distress 
(laughter),  his  criticism  (laughter)  and  sometimes  his 
comment.  But  through  it  all  I  came  to  know  good 
behind  that  comment,  behind  that  exact  clear- 


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headed  business  point  of  view,  that  required  certain 
definite  results,  there  was  the  kindest  and  most 
sympathetic  nature,  the  finest  spirit  of  the  best  kind 
of  a  cKent.  (Applause.) 

I  see  before  me  a  great  many  professional  men,  men 
engaged  in  all  the  walks  of  life,  and,  speaking  as  a 
professional  man  and  particularly  as  an  architect,  I 
want  to  say  that  it  is,  in  my  judgment,  utterly  im- 
possible to  erect  a  great  monumental  building  or  carry 
on  successfully  a  constructional  enterprise,  particularly 
one  that  involves  the  art  of  design,  without  a  sympa- 
thetic client.  (Applause,)  And  for  those  of  you  who 
may  be  so  unfortunate  in  the  future  as  to  embark 
upon  a  building  enterprise,  I  venture  to  suggest  just 
one  thing :  that,  whatever  you  do,  enter  cordially  and 
sympathetically  into  the  point  of  view  of  the  man  you 
have  chosen  to  conduct  that  enterprise  for  you.  Guide 
him  and  direct  him,  but  ever  give  him  your  confi- 
dence, your  support. 

Now,  I  want  to  say  that  a  work  of  this  magnitude 
is  not  executed  by  any  one  man. 

It  is  the  result  of  the  cooperation  of  many  men.  It 
means  the  loyal  help,  the  loyal  and  earnest  work  of 
many  minds  working  along  in  one  direction.  In  this 
case  there  have  been  so  large  a  group  of  men  engaged 
upon  the  enterprise  that  it  is  utterly  impossible  to 
give  to  all  the  credit  that  they  so  richly  deserve  or  even 
to  name  them  by  name.  But  among  those  whom  I 
would  like  to  name  on  this  occasion — and  I  will  not 
ask  them  to  stand  up ' ' — is,  first,  the  man  who  came 
first  with  me  into  the  enterprise,  Mr.  John  R.  Rock- 
art.  (Applause,)  First,  from  the  laborious  early 
stages  of  the  sketch  plan  to  the  final  details  and  the 
execution  both  practical  and  artistic.  Mr.  Thomas  R. 


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Johnson  (applause),  whose  facile  pencil  and  refined  ar- 
tistic genius  have  had  so  large  a  part  in  the  creation  of 
the  design  for  which  you  have  given  me  credit.  Mr. 
George  H.  Wells,  whose  constructive  skill  and  sound 
common  sense  have  been  so  effective  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  work.  To  them,  specially,  I  render  my 
acknowledgment.  (Applause.)  To  Gunvald  Aus, 
chief  structural  engineer,  and  to  his  associates,  Mr. 
S.  F.  Holtzman,  Mr.  Kort  Berle,  and  Mr.  Dag  Sand- 
berg,  who  made  the  calculations  for  the  structural 
steel,  are  due  praise  and  honor  of  the  highest.  To 
extend  the;  list  would  read  like  a  list  from  Who  is 
Who  in  Architecture.  But  I  cannot  refrain  from 
mentioning  others  who  have  performed  notable  serv- 
ice. Among  those,  Mr.  F.  H.  Keese,  Mr.  W.  P. 
Foulds,  Mr.  G.  F.  ShaflFer,  Mr.  H.  K.  Culver,  Mr.  L. 
E.  Eden,  Mr.  Z.  N.  Matteossian,  and,  by  no  means 
least,  Mr.  W.  R.  Sunter,  the  able  superintendent, 
who  has  followed  this  work  from  the  bowels  of  the 
earth  to  the  topmost  pinnacle  of  the  tower,  and  co- 
operating with  us  have  been  Messrs.  Nygren,  Tenney 
&  Ohmes,  the  heating  engineers ;  Messrs.  Mailloux  & 
Knox,  electrical  engineers  and  elevator  experts;  Mr. 
Albert  L.  Webster,  the  sanitary  engineer;  Mr.  F.  de 
P.  Hone,  the  inspector  of  steel;  Mr.  John  Hogan,  the 
clerk  of  the  works;  Mr.  R.  D.  Read,  who  has  kept 
the  complex  accounts  and  correspondence,  and  many 
others.  (Applause,)  Only  the  obvious  limit  of  time 
prevents  my  naming  at  least  as  many  more  who  have 
rendered  service  of  great  value  to  the  work. 

In  accepting  the  honor  which  this  occasion  impUes, 
I  am  accepting  it  on  their  behalf  as  well  as  on  my 
own.  In  recognizing  the  services  of  my  associates, 
our  office  staff  and  engineers,  I  would  feel  that 


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I  would  like  to  add  a  word  of  praise  to  every  man 
engaged  on  the  work.  Certainly  no  architect  ever  had 
such  loyal  and  untiring  support.  But  it  is  impossible 
within  the  time  allowed  me  to  speak  of  them.  I  must, 
though,  make  my  acknowledgments  to  the  Thompson- 
Starrett  Company,  the  great  building  organization, 
who  have  acted  as  general  contractors,  and  their 
very  able  and  resourceful  President,  Louis  J. 
Horowitz.    They  made  good. 

It  is  not  for  me  to  praise  the  work.  I  hope  that 
you  will  find  it  worthy.  But  I  may  be  permitted  to 
suggest  that  its  completion  signalizes  many  things. 
It  shows  that  this  is  the  land  of  equal  opportunity, 
and  that  under  our  laws  and  under  our  government 
a  man  may  start  in  life  with  nothing  of  this  world's 
goods,  and,  single-handed,  achieve  success;  that  this 
opportunity  is  open  to  all  and  that  it  is  not  through 
agitation  and  unrest  our  people  will  prosper,  but  by 
the  good  old-fashioned  virtues  of  honesty,  clean  deal- 
ing, industry  and  thrift.    {Great  applause,) 

Those  virtues  are  illustrated  in  Mr.  Frank  W. 
Woolworth.  (Applause,) 

It  shows  also  that  the  Arts,  especially  the  con- 
structive arts,  are  not  without  honor  in  our  day  and 
in  our  land;  that  at  least  one  of  the  owners  of  great 
properties — and  I  myself  believe  that  there  are  many — 
recognize  the  civic  obligation  to  endeavor  to  make 
such  buildings  beautiful  as  well  as  useful,  and  that 
they  in  doing  so  lose  no  item  of  usefulness  nor  lessen 
the  income  value  of  their  property.  Such  men  are 
public  benefactors  in  the  largest  sense.  I  hope  that 
it  shows  that  there  is  a  vitality  in  our  art  sufficient 
to  meet  new  conditions.  It  demonstrates  that  the 
American  business  man  can  accomplish  whatever  he 


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undertakes,  for  Mr.  Woolworth,  who  has  conceived 
this  great  enterprise,  purchased  the  land  and  carried 
the  building  forward  to  a  successful  conclusion,  enough 
work  for  one  man's  lifetime,  and  to  have  done  it  in 
thirty-six  months  as  a  by-product  of  his  energy  is  a 
little  less  than  marvelous.    (Great  applause.) 

For  most  men  the  financing  alone  would  have  been 
a  staggering  proposition.  For  him  it  was  easy.  (Ap- 
plause.) He  "cut  it  out. ' '  (Applause.)  There  was  no 
financing.  He  paid  for  it  himself  as  he  went  along. 
(Applause.)  And  while  he  has  never  made  any  such 
statement  to  me,  I  took  pains  to  ask  his  banker  about 
it  not  long  ago,  because  I  had  a  kind  of  contingent  in- 
terest in  the  final  settlement  myself.  (Laughter.)  And 
his  banker  told  me  that  this  structure  is  unique  in 
New  York,  and  perhaps  in  the  whole  history  of  great 
buildings  in  this  country,  in  that  it  stands  without  a 
mortgage  and  without  a  dollar  of  indebtedness.  (Great 
applause.)  You  would  never  know  that  from  him,  but 
I  took  pains  to  find  out  about  it.  It  is  therefore  a 
monument  to  his  resources,  as  well  as  to  his  energy, 
his  taste  and  his  civic  pride. 

The  great  patron  of  the  arts  is  he  who  not  only  col- 
lects works  of  art,  but  he  who  gives  the  artists  oppor- 
tunity. Such  a  patron  of  the  arts  is  this  man  whom 
we  have  here  to-night  as  our  host.  Throughout  this 
work  he  has  been  ever  helpful,  sympathetic,  genuine 
and  sincere,  not  neglectful  of  details,  taking  a  per- 
sonal part  in  everything,  but  willing  to  listen  and  to 
cooperate  and  to  coordinate. 

Gentlemen,  my  dear  old  friend  Archbishop  Ireland, 
at  the  end  of  a  Loyal  Legion  banquet,  after  listening 
to  all  the  past  privates  and  high  generals  that  fought 
the  Civil  War,  was  called  upon  late  in  the  evening  to 


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address  them,  and  he,  in  that  wonderfully  beautiful 
old-fashioned  Irish  brogue  of  which  he  is  such  a  mas- 
ter, hesitated  a  minute  and  then  said:  ''Gentlemen, 
there  is  a  time  when  the  truth  should  be  told.  Let  us 
praise  ourselves. ' '  {Great  laughter.) 

And  this  is  our  opportunity — Mr.  Woolworth's  and 
mine.  He  praises  me  and  I  praise  him  {Laughter) .  He 
is  a  real  patron  of  art  as  in  the  Middle  Ages  was  Agos- 
tino  Chigi,  the  great  banker  of  Rome;  as  were  the  wool 
merchants  and  bankers  of  Italy  who  made  their  cities 
beautiful,  and  have  built  them  for  every  beautiful 
purpose,  and  as  was  Jacques  Coeur,  the  great  banker 
of  France.  And  we  have  to-day  with  us  Frank  W. 
Woolworth,  who  has,  all  unconscious  of  that  side  of 
it,  or  that  intention,  out  of  the  goodness  of  his  heart, 
out  of  the  kindness  of  his  nature,  come  forward  and 
made  his  contribution,  we  hope,  to  the  civic  beauty 
of  his  adopted  city. 

I  cannot  thank  you  too  deeply,  Mr.  Woolworth,  for 
the  honor  you  have  done  to  me,  and  for  the  oppor- 
tunity you  have  given  to  me,  in  making  me  the  archi- 
tect of  this  building. 

Mr.  Frank  W.  Woolworth:  Now,  Mr.  Gilbert, 
you  thought  you  were  through,  but  unfortunately  you 
have  to  get  on  your  hind  legs.  Now,  this  must  be 
drunk  in  silence — this  toast.  {Presenting  to  Mr,  Gil- 
bert an  immense  silver  cup.) 

Mr.  Gilbert:  Holy  Smoke!  Well,  my!  That  takes 
my  breath  away. 

Mr.  Woolworth:  Mr.  Gilbert,  it  gives  me  great 
pleasure  to  present  to  you  this  small  token  of  my  re- 
gard for  your  ability,  for  you  as  a  man — a  man  that 
is  honest  from  the  sole  of  his  feet  to  the  top  of  his 
head. 


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It  has  been  said  that  some  architects  never  asso- 
ciate with  their  cUents  after  they  put  up  one  building 
for  them.  (Laughter,)  It  has  been  said  that  the  chent 
never  cared  to  see  the  architect  again.  (Laughter.) 
Mr.  Gilbert  is  just  as  much  my  friend  to-day  as  he 
ever  was.  (Applause,)  Therefore,  I  give  him  this 
little  token  of  regard.  On  the  interior  of  it  is  an  en- 
graving of  the  building  made  by  master  hands — Tif- 
fany &  Co.  On  the  exterior  of  this  little  cup  (laughter) 
has  been  engraved,  and  it  stands  out  in  gold  letters, 
these  words:  *'PTesented  to  Cass  Gilbert  by  Frank 
W.  Woolworth,  as  a  mark  of  appreciation,  at  the  for- 
mal opening  of  the  Woolworth  Building  on  the  24th 
day  of  April,  1913."  (Great  applause,) 

Mr.  Gilbert:  You  could  drown  sorrow,  care,  and 
all  sorts  of  trouble  in  that.  During  the  entire  period 
of  this  work,  Mr.  Woolworth,  I  have  been  endeavor- 
ing to  be  ready  for  emergencies.  I  thought  something 
might  happen  in  a  constructive  way,  and  I  have  tried 
to  be  in  a  frame  of  mind  never  to  be  taken  by  surprise. 
But  I  confess,  I  am  utterly  taken  by  surprise,  and  I 
don't  know  what  to  say.  I  thank  you  for  this  superb 
trophy  more  than  I  can  tell  you,  and  I  think  you  can  all 
understand  it  without  my  making  a  speech  about  it.  I 
thank  you  very  much,  from  my  heart.  (Great 
applause.) 


The  Toastmaster:  It  requires  three  men  to  per- 
fect a  great  structure: 

The  Owner ^ 
The  Architect, 
The  Builder. 

Let  me  recall  to  you  what  I  saw  myself,  some  few 
years  ago,  immediately  below  where  we  sit.  I  stood 
on  the  sidewalk  and  watched  the  performance;  mar- 
velling over  the  perfect  organization,  the  absolute 
surety,  decision,  the  order — behind  it  all  the  system 
which  made  it  possible.  A  building  requiring  25,000 
tons  of  structural  steel,  with  no  free  storage  outside 
its  building  lines,  everything  being  hoisted  from  the 
trucks  as  it  was  required.  As  the  days  went  by  I  fol- 
lowed the  work,  watching  the  testing  drills  bore  into 
the  earth's  vitals;  then  began  the  blasting,  then  the 
caissons  were  sunk — big,  round  as  a  ship's  funnel  and 
many  times  as  long — down  they  went  slowly,  slowly, 
one  foot  at  a  time,  the  brown  ground  hogs  digging  like 
moles  in  the  foul  air.  Then  a  swarm  of  Titans  rushed 
in.  Up  went  the  derricks,  the  cranes  swung.  Half  a 
score  of  engines  vomited  steam  and  smoke,  then  huge 
beams  of  steel,  heavy  as  a  bridge  truss  and  as  thick, 
punched  and  ready,  were  swung  into  place  and  the  up- 
ward lift  began — up — up — up — into  the  blue — a  gi- 
gantic skeleton  of  steel  over  which,  months  later,  was 
stretched  a  skin  of  stone  punctured  with  a  thou- 
sand browless  eyes.  Mr.  Horowitz.  {Great  applause,) 


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THE  •  ADDRESS  •  OF 
MR  •  LOUIS  •  J  •  HOROWITZ 


\ 


Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen :  I  have  been  asked  to 
respond  to  the  toast  of  *'The  Builder  of  the  Wool- 
worth  Building,"  and  presumably  am  expected  to  dis- 
cuss the  problems  attendant  upon  the  construction  of 
this  building,  and  how  they  were  overcome.  But  I 
said  all  I  have  to  say  on  this  score  at  the  time  I  was 
persuading  Mr.  Woolworth  to  give  me  the  job,  and  the 
Woolworth  Building  as  it  stands  must  tell  the  balance 
of  the  story.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  I  feel  that  I  owe 
it  to  myself  to  tell  you  that  I  am  speaking  here  to- 
night more  from  compulsion  than  choice.  When  Mr. 
Woolworth  first  asked  me  to  speak  at  this  dinner  to 
Mr.  Gilbert,  I  very  properly  suggested  that  there 
were  many  men  much  more  competent  than  myself 
to  make  such  an  address.  But  this  arrangement  would 
not  satisfy  Mr.  Woolworth,  who  has  grown  so  used 
to  ordering  me  around  that  he  has  got  the  habit. 

The  fact  is,  Mr.  Woolworth  always  manages  to 
get  his  own  way  somehow  or  other,  so  one  might 
as  well  submit  with  a  ready  grace  in  the  first 
place.  Nothing  seems  impossible  to  him.  He  has 
founded  and  continues  to  extend  the  ramifications 
of  one  of  the  most  fabulous  businesses  in  the  world; 
and  at  a  time  when  most  men  are  preparing  to 
detach  themselves  from  the  cares  and  tribulations 
of  business  affairs,  Mr.  Woolworth,  with  charac- 
teristic energy  and  enthusiasm,  creates  a  structure 
which  has  already  been  referred  to  far  and  wide  as 
the  Eighth  Wonder  of  the  World.  Had  Mr.  Wool- 
worth  done  nothing  else  but  create  that  wonderful  in- 
stitution, the  5c  and  10c  store,  he  would  have  done 
enough.  Had  he  done  nothing  but  give  employment 
to  the  thousands  who  work  with  him  and  for  him, 
he  would  have  been  a  benefactor  of  his  race.  But  to 


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surmount  his  own  great  achievement,  as  he  once 
surmounted  the  obstacles  of  an  obscure  beginning, 
with  such  a  mighty  enterprise  as  the  Woolworth 
Building,  this  surely  is  a  very  stimulating  example  of 
his  courage.  And  I  make  this  point  the  more  strongly 
because,  in  these  days  of  general  discouragement  in 
business  circles,  when  the  spirit  of  pessimism  is  reduc- 
ing so  greatly  our  constructive  energies,  it  is  gratifying 
to  find  a  man  who  has  sufficient  confidence  in  himself 
and  in  the  future  of  his  country  not  to  be  intimidated 
by  the  recent  senseless  persecution  of  big  business. 

But  it  is  one  thing  to  say  pleasant  things  about 
Mr.  Woolworth,  who  is  not  scheduled  for  praise 
this  evening,  and  it  is  quite  another  to  extol  a  man  like 
our  guest,  who  has  been  dragged  into  the  limelight  in 
order  that  he  may  see  and  hear  and  forever  remember 
what  we  think  of  him.  I  have  always  been  of  the  opinion 
that  it  requires  extraordinary  talent  to  praise  a  man 
judiciously  in  public,  because  there  is  a  positive  genius 
in  knowing  just  what  to  say  and  just  what  to  leave 
out,  and  I  am  not  accustomed  to  face  such  emergen- 
cies without  a  set  of  plans  before  me.  In  fact,  plans 
and  specifications  are  such  a  part  of  my  business  and 
social  life,  that  I  look  to  them  for  guidance  in  all 
things.  And  it  does  occur  to  me,  when  I  reflect  upon 
the  thousand  and  one  things  which  the  Woolworth 
contract  said  should  be  done,  and  the  thousand  and 
one  things  which  it  said  should  not  be  done,  that  so 
exhaustive  a  recital  may  possibly  have  contained  some 
rules  for  making  after-dinner  speeches. 

But,  after  all,  this  is  no  time  for  rules.  Some  men 
are  praised  by  rule,  some  few  as  exceptions,  and  Mr. 
Gilbert  comes  under  the  second  classification.  I  be- 
lieve I  am  correct  in  stating  that  we  are  here  to-night 


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to  honor  Mr.  Gilbert,  not  only  as  a  great  architect, 
but  also  as  a  very  likeable  man.  It  is  not  success  alone 
which  gets  a  man  a  dinner  from  his  friends,  but  rather 
the  amiability  of  his  disposition  and  his  capacity  for 
friendship.  And  surely  there  can  be  no  better  proof  of 
Mr.  Gilbert's  amiability  and  his  capacity  for  friend- 
ship than  that  which  is  implied  by  so  notable  a  gath- 
ering as  this  one.  As  a  man,  Mr.  Gilbert  possesses  the 
rare  faculty  of  inspiring  the  utmost  confidence  and  re- 
spect, and  if  I  may  be  pardoned  for  referring  very 
briefly  to  my  personal  dealings  with  Mr.  Gilbert,  I 
may  say  that  I  have  a  hundred  times  been  obligated 
to  him,  not  only  for  that  guidance  and  advice  which, 
as  the  architect  for  this  great  operation,  it  was  his  priv- 
ilege to  furnish,  but  chief  of  all  for  his  unfailing  cour- 
tesy and  patience.  And  whilst  I  am  very  anxious 
to  avoid  giving  any  embarrassment  to  our  guest  by  a 
too  glowing  tribute  to  his  virtues,  I  am  going  to  say 
that  I  never  hope  nor  wish  to  do  business  with  a  kind- 
lier, fairer,  truer  man. 

As  an  architect,  Mr.  Gilbert's  position  in  his  pro- 
fession was  assured  long  before  the  Woolworth  Build- 
ing was  dreamed  of  by  its  owner.  Yet  if  he  had  had 
no  successes  behind  him,  the  Woolworth  Building 
would  have  sufficed  to  make  him  famous.  He  has 
done  something  more  than  design  the  greatest  com- 
mercial structure  in  the  world.  He  has  done  some- 
thing more  than  contribute  to  the  beautification  of 
this  possibly  too  commercial  city.  He  has  made  a  very 
salutary  refutation  of  the  charge  so  long  levelled  at 
his  profession  by  the  architects  of  the  Old  World,  that 
American  architecture  has  neither  art  nor  beauty  but 
only  magnitude  to  commend  it.  I  make  no  pretense 
of  knowing  much  about  architecture  from  an  aca- 


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demic  point  of  view,  but  I  do  know,  as  I  contemplate 
this  wonderful  pyramid  of  steel  and  stone,  rearing  it- 
self majestically  to  a  height  never  before  reached  in 
the  annals  of  building  construction,  that  the  Wool- 
worth  Building  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  buildings 
in  the  world. 

And  in  dedicating  this  great  building  to  American 
commerce  and  industry,  we  are  also  dedicating  it  in  a 
larger  sense  to  the  spirit  of  enterprise  which  has  made 
this  country  foremost  among  the  nations.  We  are  ded- 
icating it  to  the  genius  of  two  distinguished  Americans 
who  have  realized,  each  in  his  separate  sphere,  a  meas- 
ure of  success  such  as  few  men  are  privileged  to  enjoy, 
and  who,  in  the  respective  capacity  of  owner  and  archi- 
tect, have  created  a  structure  which  is  the  wonder  of 
the  civilized  world. 

In  conclusion,  I  wish  to  acknowledge  to  Mr.  Wool- 
worth  and  Mr.  Gilbert  my  profound  gratitude  for 
having  been  privileged  to  take  part  in  this  magnifi- 
cent enterprise.  Aside  from  the  sentimental  con- 
siderations which  I  shall  always  attach  to  my 
association  with  these  gentlemen  on  this  great  work, 
I  shall  never  think  of  the  Woolworth  Building  with- 
out a  sense  of  gratification  and  pride  that  I  can  claim 
a  hand  in  its  construction.  I  wish  also  to  acknowl- 
edge the  complimentary  references  which  have  been 
made  to  our  work  on  the  Woolworth  Building.  But 
I  should  be  guilty  of  a  dereliction  if  I  failed  to  tell 
you  that  the  bulk  of  the  credit  for  that  work  belongs 
to  the  very  efficient  and  very  loyal  organization  which 
I  have  the  honor  to  represent.  Gentlemen,  I  thank 
you.  {Great  and  continued  applause.) 


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The  Toastmaster:  After  the  owner,  the  builder 
and  the  architect  finish  their  work,  and  the  exquisite 
Gothic  tower  has  risen  into  the  blue  above  us,  there 
are  times  when  the  setting  sun  gilds  it  with  beauty; 
when  the  morning  light  touches  it  with  silver;  when 
the  solemnity  of  the  night  falls  upon  it  and  the  stars 
bend  over  it;  when  all  that  is  beautiful  in  nature 
hovers  about  it  to  do  it  honor. 

And  we  are  about  to  touch  upon  this  phase  of  the 
wonder  above  us,  for  I  shall  now  call  upon  a  sweet 
singer,  who,  for  many  years,  has  been  beloved  as 
the  most  distinguished  of  our  dramatic  critics  as  well 
as  one  of  our  most  distinguished  men  of  letters.  He 
will  tell  you  of  another  side  of  this  great  enterprise 
and  he  will  tell  it  in  words  that  only  William  Winter 
knows  how  to  use.  I  introduce  to  you  the  distin- 
guished critic  and  man  of  letters,  Mr.  WilHam  Winter. 
{Great  applause.) 


THE  •  ADDRESS  •  AND  •  THE  •  POEM  •  "THE 
ARTIST"  •  OF  •  MR  •  WILLIAM  •  WINTER 


I  thank  you,  Mr.  President,  for  the  gracious 
courtesy  with  which  you  have  been  pleased  to  men- 
tion my  name,  and  I  thank  you,  gentlemen,  for  the 
generous  favor  with  which  the  mention  of  it  has  been 
received.  As  I  look  on  this  remarkable  assemblage, 
representative,  to  an  uncommon  degree,  of  character 
and  intellect  in  every  department  of  thought,  enter- 
prise, and  labor,  I  remember,  and  can  but  echo,  the 
expressive  words  of  Shakespeare: 

"How  many  goodly  creatures  are  there  here! 
How  beauteous  mankind  is!  O,  brave  new  world, 
That  has  such  people  in  it!  " 

And  I  feel  that  it  is  indeed  a  precious  privilege  to  see 
such  a  company  and  speak  in  such  a  presence. 

This  occasion  and  this  scene  are  suggestive  of  many 
thoughts,  but  they  must  not  beguile  me  to  the  use 
of  many  words.  For  the  reason  that  I  am  a  man 
of  letters  whose  whole  life  has  been  devoted  to  the 
service  of  the  arts  by  which  beauty  is  diffused  and 
a  refined  civilization  promoted,  I  have  been  asked 
to  address  you  in  the  name  of  the  community  of  ar- 
tists, and,  accordingly,  it  becomes  my  fortunate  and 
much  valued  province,  speaking  on  behalf  of  that 
community, — and,  therefore,  I  am  sure,  with  your 
sympathetic  approbation, — to  congratulate  Cass  Gil- 
bert on  his  noble  achievement,  and  to  express  a  pro- 
found and  grateful  appreciation  of  his  fine  genius, 
which,  —  kindled  by  love  of  beauty,  inspired  by 
imagination,  and  guided  by  the  sovereign  faculty  of 
taste, — has  enabled  large  and  generous  wealth  to 
adorn  our  imperial  city  with  this  magnificent  building. 

There  is  a  conventional  opinion,  widely  prevalent, 
that  an  artist,  because  a  poetic  dreamer,  is  a  visionary 


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being  who  sits  on  the  end  of  a  damp  cloud  and  twangs 
a  harp.  That  opinion  is  erroneous.  The  artistic  mind 
and  the  practical  mind  are,  in  fact,  so  closely  kindred 
as  to  be  almost  identical.  Newton,  so  gentle  and  lovely 
in  character,  so  poetic  in  spirit,  so  truly  an  artist  in 
nature,  was  not  only  a  consummate  mathematician 
and  philosopher,  but  also  Master  of  the  Mint,  and 
he  was  entirely  proficient  in  that  eminently  practical 
office.  Milton,  statesman  as  well  as  poet,  who  wrote 
some  of  the  most  glorious  poetry  in  all  literature,  also 
wrote  the  State  Papers  of  Oliver  Cromwell.  The 
wonderful  man  who  died  a  few  days  ago  in  Rome  was 
the  ablest  administrator  of  practical  business  affairs 
of  whom  there  is  record  in  the  annals  of  any  nation 
or  any  age — wielding  a  greater  power  than  that  of 
those  merchants  of  Venice  and  Genoa  who  so  long 
delayed  the  sailing  of  the  Spanish  Armada;  a  greater 
power  than  even  that  of  Napoleon  Bonaparte,  at 
the  summit  of  his  career,  because,  silently  but  surely, 
exerted  over  a  far  wider  area  and  in  a  far  more  exigent 
time;  and  the  reason  of  his  colossal  authority  and  im- 
perial sway  is  that  he  possessed  the  combined  imagin- 
ation and  intellect  which  grasps  and  comprehends  the 
whole  constitution  of  human  nature  and  the  whole 
complex  system  of  social  activities.  He  was  the  grand- 
son of  one  of  the  loveliest  of  the  American  poets  ;  he 
was  himself  of  a  poetic  spirit;  he  was  instinctively  a 
lover  of  the  arts;  and  his  life  provided  ample  testimony 
that  the  artistic  mind  can  be  entirely  competent  to 
meet  any  demand  of  business  or  any  emergency  of 
public  affairs. 

It  is  not  inappropriate  that  a  man  of  letters  should 
celebrate  the  beautiful  Woolworth  Building;  the 
accomplished  artist  who  designed  it;  and  the  faith- 


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ful,  able  executive  who  built  it;  and  should  con- 
gratulate its  fortunate  and  munificent  owner,  Frank 
WoolworthjOn  the  possession  of  such  a  treasure.  Archi- 
tecture, impressive  and  charming  to  all  artistic  minds, 
has  ever  been  a  special  delight  to  men  of  letters,  and  to 
such  men  the  world  has  been  indebted  for  some  of  the 
grandest  fabrics  of  it  that  ever  were  reared.  The  famous 
white  marble  tower  of  Pharos,  once  visible  at  a  dis- 
tance of  a  hundred  miles  to  the  sailors  of  the  Mediter- 
ranean Sea,  was  built  by  the  Egyptian  Ptolemy,  writer 
and  scholar  as  well  as  warrior  and  king.  Much  of  the 
stately  castle  of  Heidelberg,  of  which  the  majestic  ruin 
frowns  from  its  mountain  side  on  the  sparkling  waters 
of  the  rapid  Neckar,  was  planned  by  Michael  Angelo, 
poet  and  man  of  letters,  painter  and  sculptor.  Opu- 
lent Fonthill,  once  a  marvel  of  magnificence,  was  built 
by  William  Beckford,  romancer  and  man  of  letters,  to 
whom  literature  owes  that  glittering  gem  of  imagina- 
tion, the  weird,  fantastic  Arabian  tale  of  "Vathek." 
The  massive  palace  of  Blenheim,  symbol  of  the  Eng- 
lish nation's  homage  to  the  brilliant  victorious  Marl- 
borough, was  designed  by  Vanbrugh,  man  of  letters 
and  dramatist.  Holkam,  that  wonder  of  Italian  art, 
fronting  the  gales  and  surges  of  the  stormy  German 
Ocean,  was  erected  by  Thomas  Coke,  writer  and 
scholar.  Monticello  was  planned  and  reared  by 
Thomas  Jefferson,  man  of  letters  as  well  as  statesman, 
and  in  both  vocations  renowned.  Many  similar 
examples  could  be  named,  but  those  suffice. 

There  is  poetic  authority  for  the  belief  that  the 
architect  of  St.  Peter's  Cathedral,  in  Rome,  "builded 
better  than  he  knew."  If  he  did,  his  experience  was 
exceptional.  The  poet's  allusion,  I  suppose,  is  to  those 
sudden  waves  of  inspiration  which  come  to  every 


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artist  of  genius,  in  the  course  of  the  execution  of  his 
main  design.  But  the  true  artist  knows  his  art,  and, 
in  the  use  of  it,  he  leaves  nothing  to  chance.  Milton 
did  not  foresee  the  numerous  verbal  felicities  that 
would  illumine  his  writing  of  the  "Paradise  Lost;" 
but  he  conceived  that  sublime  epic  as  a  complete  and 
rounded  whole.  The  inventive  artist  who  planned  this 
massive  and  beautiful  structure  did  not,  at  first,  dis- 
cern every  detail  of  its  complexity.  Many  an  hour 
of  anxious  thought  must  have  been  bestowed  on  the 
intricate  particulars  of  the  plan;  but  I  am  sure  that 
this  gorgeous  edifice,  at  the  first,  rose  in  the  cham- 
bers of  his  imagination  a  rounded  and  complete 
whole,  a  grand  fabric  of  Gothic  architecture — vast, 
airy,  graceful,  glorious — even  as  the  delighted  gazer 
can  behold  it  now. 

And  now  the  work  is  finished,  and  "the  end 
crowns  the  work."  When  Shakespeare,  after  a  men- 
tal ordeal  of  which  I  think  with  awe,  had  dropped 
the  pen  that  wrote  the  tremendous  tragedy  of  "King 
Lear;"  when  the  blind  Milton  had  dictated  the  last 
line  of  his  epic,  and  the  forms  of  the  heavenly  hosts 
were  vanishing  from  his  inward  eye;  when  Raphael 
had  given  the  final  touch  to  his  marvelous  painting  of 
the  Transfiguration,  in  which  the  whole  spirit  of  the 
Christian  Faith  is  expressed  at  once  and  forever;  when 
Gibbon,  at  Lausanne,  had  written  the  last  word  of  his 
great  history — the  most  colossal  achievement  of  the 
kind  that  ever  was  accomplished — and,  as  he  looked 
on  the  waters  of  Lake  Leman,  placid  in  the  summer 
moonlight,  felt  and  knew  that  the  labor  of  twenty 
years  was  at  last  complete — what  mingled  and  con- 
flicting emotions  must  have  surged  through  their 
minds!  What  wistful  sadness,  in  parting  from  old 


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companions!  What  gratitude  and  joy  in  the  trium- 
phant fulfilment  of  splendid  ideals!  Such  emotion,  I 
know,  is  that  of  Cass  Gilbert,  to-night,  when  realizing 
the  accomplishment  of  his  majestic  architectural  con- 
ception, and  the  dedication,  amid  general  and  enthu- 
siastic acclaim,  of  this  superb  temple  of  industry, 
beauty,  and  art. 

I  have  attempted  to  express  in  poetic  form  the 
thought  which  I  believe  must  be  in  all  our  minds  at 
this  moment,  and  I  desire  to  leave  this  record  of  it  in 
your  remembrance,  as  my  tribute  to  this  festival: 

THE  ARTIST 

Where  once  Zenobia's  bastions  rose 
The  wind  that  stirs  the  desert  sand 

Now  softly  sighs  and  sadly  blows 
O'er  Tadmor's  desolated  land; — 

The  dirge  for  life  and  glory  fled, 

The  requiem  for  centuries  dead. 

The  towers  of  Troy  are  sunk  in  tears, 
The  golden  domes  of  Tyre  are  gone, 

And  only  wandering  echo  hears 
The  vagrant  name  of  Babylon; 

And  ravens  flit  and  serpents  hiss 

O'er  what  was  once  Persepolis. 

Of  silent  Time  th'  impartial  hand 
That  quells  alike  our  griefs  and  joys, 

The  ruthless  regent  of  command, 
That  now  creates  and  now  destroys, 

Has  triumph'd,  since  the  world  began. 

O'er  man  and  all  the  works  of  man. 

Yet  always  the  aspiring  Soul, — 

The  Angel  in  the  mortal  clod. 
The  Vision  that  defies  control, — 

Will  look  through  Nature  up  to  God, 
And  strive,  in  word  and  form,  to  speak 
The  beauty  it  was  born  to  seek. 


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That  only,  that  eternal  theme. 

Still  fires  Imagination's  eye! 
The  Phidian  Jove  lives  but  in  dream, 

The  Phidian  spirit  cannot  die! 
Through  Nature's  heart  that  passion  runs. 
Still  circling  with  the  circling  suns. 

As  well  beneath  Columbia's  skies 

As  on  Athena's  sacred  height 
A  stately  Parthenon  can  rise, 

Minerva's  temple  leap  to  light, — 
A  thing  of  wonder  and  of  praise, 
In  modern  as  in  ancient  days. 

And  not  in  vain,  from  age  to  age. 
In  forms  of  grandeur  and  of  grace, 

Is  writ  on  more  than  History's  page 
The  progress  of  the  human  race, — 

The  rise  of  mind  and  feeling,  shown 

In  golden  poems  made  of  stone. 

In  every  glorious  form  the  sign 

Of  something  more  transcendent  still, — 

The  impulse  to  a  life  divine 

That  moulds  and  guides  the  human  will, — 

Presages  beings  fit  to  dwell 

In  mansions  reared  so  nobly  well. 

Not  for  itself  the  glowing  heart 
Of  genius  weaves  its  magic  spell, — 

The  glamour  of  poetic  art. 

Like  the  sea's  music  in  the  shell, — 

The  charm,  magnetic  and  serene. 

Of  all  that  forms  and  colors  mean. 

For  all  the  world  that  spell  is  cast 
O'er  common  and  uncommon  things; 

To  gild  the  story  of  the  Past, 

To  speed  the  Present  on  its  wings, 

To  hail  the  Future  and  ordain 

Triumphant  Beauty's  perfect  reign. 

Auspicious  Future!  May  it  find, 
In  our  great  Empire  of  the  West, — 

The  haven  home  of  all  mankind. 

By  Plenty  crowned,  by  Freedom  blest, — 

A  people  whose  supreme  success 

Is  intellectual  loveliness! 


The  Toastmaster:  Gentlemen,  I  have  the  distin- 
guished honor  of  presenting  to  you  another  expert — 
one  whom  I  thought  we  could  get  along  without, 
but  it  does  not  seem  possible  for  us  to  escape 
the  talons  of  the  law.  (Laughter.)  Probably  our  dis- 
tinguished host  and  our  distinguished  architect  will  get 
into  some  entanglement  when  the  final  accounts  are 
made  up,  in  which  case  they  will  be  very  glad  to  call 
upon  the  next  speaker,  Mr.  Hensel. 

The  Honorable  Mr.  Hensel,  Ex-Attorney  General 
of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania.  (Applause,) 


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THE  •  ADDRESS  •  OF 
HON  •  W  •  U  •  HENSEL 


Mr.  Toastmaster,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen :  Even  if  the 
printer  had  not  accidentally  dropped  my  name  from 
the  programme,!  should  feel  a  very  great  deal  of  hesita- 
tion at  disturbing,  if  not  shocking,  the  spell  of  enchant- 
ment which  must  linger  with  this  company,  after  the 
notes  to  which  you  have  just  listened  from  the  pen  and 
tongue  of  one  who  for  forty  years  has  irradiated  Amer- 
ican art  and  literature.  Of  all  the  triumphs,  material, 
social  and  artistic,  that  have  come  to  our  host  in  his 
business  career,  I  know  of  none  greater,  more  elo- 
quent and  more  touching  than  that  which  has  come 
to  you  to-night  from  the  brain  that  rests  under  "  that 
good  gray  head,  which  all  men  know"  {applause),  the 
premier  of  American  learning  and  letters,  of  American 
literature  in  the  last  half  century  in  this  country.  It 
has  perhaps  suggested  itself  to  the  management  of  this 
occasion  that  it  would  not  be  entirely  complete  with- 
out some  recognition  from  an  interior  town  in  Penn- 
sylvania, where  our  distinguished  host  began  his  bus- 
iness career  and  the  great  success  which  has  crowned 
him.  When  I  stand  in  the  presence  of  a  building,  or  of 
a  man  nine  hundred  and  nineteen  feet  high  {laughter) 
and  contemplate  the  Lilliputian  critics  who  have 
watched,  first,  his  business  career,  and  then  his  new 
venture,  with  doubt,  timidity  and  skepticism,  I  am 
very  much  reminded  of  a  Pennsylvania  Dutchman 
from  Berks  County,  who  was  a  great  admirer  of  An- 
drew J ackson .  He  was  in  the  Pennsylvania  Legislature 
in  the  most  tempestuous  period  of  that  eminent  states- 
man's public  career.  He  was  wont  to  boast  of  his  in- 
timacy with  General  Jackson,  and  there  was  a  little 
bit  of  a  bespectacled  lawyer  from  Philadelphia  named 
Mclntyre,  who  was  a  great  opponent  of  Jackson.  One 
day  old  Schaefler,  before  the  House  of  Representa- 


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lives  had  assembled  at  Harrisburg,  when  they  met  in 
the  old  Capitol — not  in  that  splendid  new  edifice, 
Mr.  Gilbert,  which  we  have  since  erected — called 
on  him  there  in  a  social  way  before  the  session. 
General  Schaeffer  turned  to  little  Mclntyre  and  said, 
''I  have  had  some  epistolary  correspondence  with 
the  President  of  the  United  States.  He  wrote  me 
a  letter  and  I  have  written  him  that  reply.  I  would  like 
you  to  look  it  over,  because  I  think  it  is  a  mighty  good 
letter."  Little  Mclntyre  raised  his  eye-glasses,  read  all 
over  it  and  said,  "Yes;  that  is  pretty  well  done.  Gen- 
eral, but,"  he  said,  "I  would  just  like  to  make  a  sug- 
gestion. In  polite  correspondence  it  is  customary 
when  we  use  the  first  personal  pronoun  to  write  it,  not 
with  a  little  ' i '  dotted,  but  with  a  capital  I."  Schaeffer 
was  a  little  taken  back,  but  looked  at  it  and  said,  '  'I 
know  that  very  well,  sir;  I  am  quite  well  acquainted 
with  the  rules  of  polite  correspondence,  but  when 
I  write  to  the  great  Andrew  Jackson  I  abase 
myseK.  {Laughter,)  If  I  was  writing — with  due  re- 
spect to  our  reverend  friend — to  a  damn  little  pis- 
mire like  you,  I  would  write  a  capital  I  to  fill  two 
sheets  of  foolscap  paper." 

The  people  of  Lancaster  County  had  our  host  as  a 
business  man  on  a  small  scale  in  our  own  little  town, 
where  he  came,  a  comparative  stranger,  nearly  forty 
years  ago,  and  where  I  think  he  once  made  almost  a 
business  failure,  and  where  he  certainly  made  his  first 
business  success.  With  a  very  little  capital,  but  with 
unlimited  energy  and  confidence,  backed  not  only  by 
the  good  will,  but  I  think  by  the  prayers  of  good  men 
and  good  women,  on  a  capital  of  a  very  few  hundred 
dollars,  he  built  up  there  in  that  city  of  Lancaster  of 
Pennsylvania  the  foundation  on  which  all  these  great 


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and  later  commercial  enterprises  have  expanded.  He 
has  gone  out  from  among  us,  but  two  things  are  to  be 
said,  and  I  am  here  to  bear  testimony  to  them  to-night, 
to  his  credit  and  to  ours,  and  that  is  that  we  have 
never  lost  our  pride  and  our  confidence  and  our  affec- 
tion for  Woolworth,  and  he  has  never  ceased  his  pride, 
affection  and  gratitude  to  Lancaster.  (Applause,) 

And  in  all  the  towns  where  his  name  is  known,  and 
into  which  his  business  has  entered,  and  where  his  ven- 
tures have  been  successful,  of  them  all  I  think  the  closest 
and  nearest  and  dearest  to  his  heart,  next  to  Water- 
town,  New  York,  is  the  old  town  of  Lancaster,  Penn- 
sylvania. (Applause,)  And  though  we  boast  ourselves 
the  inhabitants  of  no  mean  city,  we  realize  that  he  is 
no  longer  a  local  character,  no  longer  a  Lancastrian,  no 
longer  perhaps  a  Pennsylvanian,  in  fact  no  pent-up 
New  York  confines  his  powers;  he  is  a  citizen  to-day 
of  the  world;  but  wherever  he  goes,  and  whatever  he 
does,  the  hearts  of  our  people  are  with  him.  And  we 
recognize,  and  I  am  here  to  bear  testimony  for  the 
people  of  that  little  town,  that  in  the  erection  of  this 
monument  to  his  unselfish  public  spirit,  to  his  high 
sense  of  civic  pride,  he  has  been  true  to  the  traditions 
which  he  established  in  Lancaster  more  than  a  gener- 
ation ago.  When  his  outlook  was  narrower  than  it  is 
now,  when  his  desires  perhaps  were  more  limited,  he 
paid  to  our  good  city  the  same  compliment  that  he 
has  paid  to  yours:  He  came  into  that  city  and  built 
there  what  I  think  at  that  time  he  felt  was  a  monu- 
ment to  his  commercial  enterprise.  (Applause.)  He 
built,  for  the  first  time,  in  that  place  a  structure  seven 
stories  high.  Critics  then  and  pessimists  said  it  was 
the  beginning  of  the  end,  it  was  bound  to  be  a  failure, 
(Laughter)  and  fifty  years  hence  his  building  would 


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remain  untenanted.  The  result  was  that  before  the 
time  he  fixed  for  a  moderate  return  on  his  investment, 
he  was  compelled  to  make  an  enlargement  which  is 
practically  a  duplication  of  the  original.  {Applause.) 
I  want,  however,  to  bear  testimony  here  to-night,  for 
the  people  of  the  city  in  which  he  made  that  original 
success,  to  which  he  has  returned  year  after  year,  for 
which  he  has  ever  shown  the  warmest  gratitude  and 
the  highest  appreciation,  to  the  public  spirit  which 
he  manifested  in  the  erection  of  this  building,  and  to 
the  remarkable  discrimination  and  the  almost  pro- 
phetic power  which  he  displayed  in  the  selection  of 
his  architect.  It  was  my  privilege  some  years  ago, 
in  the  city  of  St.  Paul,  for  the  first  time  to  observe 
the  creation  there  in  the  State  capitol  of  Minnesota, 
the  work,  I  think,  of  a  native  of  that  State. 

And  it  seemed  to  me  there  was  then  born  a  new 
impulse  in  American  art.  It  seemed  to  me  that  out  of 
the  West  there  had  come  an  artistic  and  creative  force 
of  which  the  art  spirit  of  this  country  had  not  hereto- 
fore been  conscious. 

This  building  to  my  mind,  gentlemen,  means  much 
more  than  a  commercial  enterprise.  This  building 
is  peculiarly  a  contribution  to  the  art  treasures  of 
this  country,  in  the  fact  that  it  is  not,  as  art  treas- 
ures generally  are,  locked  up  in  a  gallery,  secreted 
almost  in  a  private  house,  enclosed  in  a  cabinet  for 
the  select  thousands  or  ten  thousands.  But  this  is 
a  structure  for  the  many  millions,  not  only  who  pass 
up  and  down  your  streets,  but  who  come  in  and 
out  of  this  great  portal;  and  here  it  will  stand,  as 
the  eloquent  poet  of  this  occasion  has  said  to  you, 
like  a  temple  of  the  Pharaohs,  to  be  a  delight  to 
those  who  come  into  this  port  and  will  see  its  pinnacle 


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touched  with  the  rays  of  the  morning  sun.  The  immi- 
grant, when  he  starts  across  on  his  westward  jour- 
ney, will  see  the  last  rays  of  the  setting  sun  fall  upon 
its  lofty  towers  and  minarets;  and  in  that  respect  it 
will  be  more  than  the  ordinary  gallery  picture,  more 
than  the  ordinary  cabinet  treasure — it  will  be  a  lesson, 
an  instructor,  an  art  teacher  to  the  millions  not  only 
of  our  own  countrymen,  but  to  all  immigrants  from 
all  lands. 

It  is  in  the  third  place,  to  my  mind,  a  triumph  to  the 
builder.  I  was  touched  as  I  have  never  been  touched — 
and  I  say  in  public  what  I  said  to  the  gentleman  in  pri- 
vate— by  the  simple  eloquence  of  the  builder  of  this 
building.  And  it  seems  to  me  that  for  all  time  this 
building  will  stand  as  a  monument  above  all  things, 
in  these  days  when  there  is  so  much  agitation  for  the 
altruistic  in  business — as  a  monument  to  the  benevo- 
lence, to  the  private  sagacity  and  broad  mindedness 
of  the  man  who  has  illustrated  in  his  dealings  with 
his  employees,  in  his  dealings  with  the  commercial 
world,  in  the  fact  that  in  the  establishment  of  hun- 
dreds and  hundreds  of  places  of  business  in  all  the 
cities  and  all  sections  of  this  country,  he  has  better, 
almost  than  any  other  individual,  solved  those  mighty 
questions  of  the  relation  of  capital  to  labor,  and  of 
the  trusteeship  of  wealth.  (Great  applause.) 

If  students  of  our  social  system,  if  critics  of  our 
business  order,  will  study  the  career  for  the  last  thirty 
years  of  the  man  whom  architect  and  builder  have  tes- 
tified here  to-night  is  first  of  all  and  most  of  all  re- 
sponsible for  this  magnificent  structure,  they  will  find 
that  in  his  dealings  with  the  general  public,  in 
his  relations  with  his  business  competitors,  and  above 
all,  in  his  relations  with  his  employees,  he  has  better. 


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to  my  mind,  than  any  other  individual  solved  those 
vexed  problems  which  seem  to  disturb  and  confuse 
and  perplex  and  complicate  our  legislators  and  the 
critics  of  our  social  system.  (Applause,) 

What  employee  complains  that  he  has  not  received 
his  fair  proportion  of  the  profits  of  the  business?  What 
competitor  complains  that  this  man,  who  has  organ- 
ized hundreds  of  stores,  has  enforced  against  the 
public  an  odious  trust?  Therefore,  it  gets  right  back 
to  this,  that  the  solution  of  all  these  problems  is  not 
in  ordinances,  is  not  in  the  statutes,  but  it  is  in  the  in- 
dividual character  of  the  man  who  conducts  the  busi- 
ness, and  stands  between  his  business  and  the  public. 
(Great  applause.) 


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\ 


The  Toastmaster:  Gentlemen,  I  give  you  Mr. 
Patrick  Francis  Murphy,  and  neither  I  nor  any  one 
else  can  offer  you  anything  better.  (Applause.) 


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THE  •  ADDRESS  •  OF 
MR  •  PATRICK  •  FRANCIS  •  MURPHY 


The  distinguished  host  and  guest  have  now  pro- 
jected themselves  into  New  York  history.  Promi- 
nence has  a  penalty  that  follows  it  like  a  shadow.  There 
are  two  occasions  in  life  when  a  man  discovers  his  ex- 
traordinary quahties  and  how  valuable  he  is.  One  is 
when  he  attends  a  banquet  given  in  his  honor,  and 
the  other  when  he  is  sued  for  breach  of  promise.  On 
either  of  these  occasions  it  is  embarrassing  to  receive 
tributes  of  worth.  Whether  he  deserves  them  or  not, 
it  is  just  as  embarrassing. 

Our  host  and  guest  represent  a  happy  union  of 
Commercial  Genius  and  Architectural  Art,  like  those 
suburban  houses,  semi-detached. 

In  this  life  men  of  skill  do  not  always  find  favor. 
Even  clever  men  require  exceptional  circumstances  to 
develop  their  qualities.  Time  does  not  always  give 
them  their  chance.  At  the  entrance  to  life  are  two 
gates:  on  one  is  marked  "Too  Soon;"  on  the  other 
"Too  Late."  It  is  a  melancholy  paradox  that  the 
artist  may  be  a  hundred  years  ahead  of  his  time  and 
three  months  behind  on  his  rent. 

A  perpetual  devotion  to  Art  can  only  be  maintained 
by  a  perpetual  neglect  of  financial  considerations. 
They  have  been  old  enemies.  Art  and  Money,  so  old 
and  so  bitter  in  hostility  they  are  not  often  found  in 
the  same  room  together — at  least  while  the  artist  is 
alive. 

Reputation  is  seldom  gained  from  things  that  have 
no  splendor  nor  show;  the  height  of  a  building  at- 
tracts the  eye  while  the  foundations  lie  without  re- 
gard ;  yet  there  is  no  way  to  the  top  of  Science  except 
from  the  lowest  parts.  Even  the  architect  must  have 
his  commercial  side.  To  be  successful,  he  must  lift  one 
eye  to  heaven,  and  without  any  derogation  to  his  Art 


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the  other  eye  must  be  squinting  at  the  cash  register. 

It  is  the  fate  of  every  art  to  be  subject  to  the  ca- 
price of  fashion  and  the  character  of  the  people. 
Every  great  nation  has  left  its  characteristic  impres- 
sion on  architecture.  The  departed  splendor  of  Greece 
is  shown  in  her  temples;  Italy  with  her  palaces;  the 
tombs  of  Egypt  are  still  our  best  models.  We  note  the 
castles  of  Germany,  the  chateaux  of  France,  the  Eng- 
lish country  houses,  and  finally  the  American  human 
birdcages,  touching  the  heavens.  The  wonder  of  the 
architectural  world  is  the  Greek  mastery  of  marble; 
its  modern  equivalent  is  the  American  mastery  of 
steel. 

There  is  in  Athens,  at  the  foot  of  the  Acropolis,  a 
charming  little  temple  dedicated  to  Victory.  This 
temple  has  on  one  of  its  sides  a  bas-relief  representing 
the  Goddess  of  Victory;  she  is  engaged  in  loosening 
her  sandals ;  she  thus  declares  her  intention  of  remain- 
ing. But  though  her  feet  are  bare,  it  is  noticed  she  still 
has  wings.  In  this,  the  sculptor  has  conceived  a  beau- 
tiful allegory :  that  the  day  which  will  see  her  fly  away 
may  not  be  far  distant.  For  no  nation  has  long  re- 
tained in  its  arms  that  faithless  goddess.  Why  should 
she  be  constant .^^  She  knows  what  every  woman 
knows:  that  when  she  returns  she  will  be  forgiven. 
Supremacy  in  nations  and  individuals  has  never  been 
permanent;  there  never  was  a  Samson  so  strong  but 
he  met  his  Delilah.  To-day  the  Woolworth  flag  of 
victory  towers  above  all  others,  astonished  at  the 
audacity  of  its  own  altitude. 

Whistler,  the  artist,  had  inscribed  over  the  door  of 
his  house  a  quotation  from  scripture:  ''Except  the 
Lord  build  the  house  they  labour  in  vain  that  build 
it.  E.  W.  Goodwin,  Architect,  built  this  one." 


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According  to  this,  a  celestial  support  is  necessary  for 
every  edifice;  and  the  Woolworth,  from  its  superior 
altitude,  seems  to  be  in  closest  connection  with  the 
upper  world,  as  if  its  two  projectors  were  intimate 
friends  of  Providence. 

The  eminent  men  in  Law,  Medicine,  and  Architec- 
ture do  not  advertise.  They  think  it  has  something 
to  do  with  morality.  Architects  have  rules  of  their 
own,  very  acceptable  to  themselves,  and  sometimes 
understood  by  others.  When  the  prisoner  was  asked 
by  the  judge  what  he  had  to  say  for  himself,  he  replied 
the  observance  of  good  breeding  forbade  him  to  speak 
of  his  own  deeds.  So  our  distinguished  Architect,  able 
and  original  though  he  is,  has  devoted  himself  to  his 
Art,  instead  of  telling  the  public  over  and  over  again 
what  a  clever  man  he  is.  To  Mr.  Woolworth  this 
seems  most  unbusiness-like;  and  so  as  Cass  Gilbert 
is  quite  hopeless  in  this  matter,  our  host  provides 
this  magnificent  banquet  and  this  glorious  oppor- 
tunity so  that  some  one  shall  come  and  do  it  for  him. 
(Applause,) 

Many  men  are  spoiled  by  success;  still  many  more 
are  spoiled  by  failure;  so  possibly  it  is  just  as  well  to 
listen  to  voices  in  testimony  of  what  you  have  done; 
to  hear  that  you  have  arrived  at  a  period  full  of  years 
and  honor  and  that  you  have  left  behind  you  what 
most  men  desire  to  achieve,  namely,  a  vital  record  of 
life's  activity. 


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The  Toastmaster:  Gentlemen,  there  is  still  an- 
other important  ceremony.  I  think  you  will  all  agree 
with  me  that  this  has  been  no  ordinary  dinner.  Cer- 
tainly nowhere  in  my  experience  has  there  been  so 
large  a  private  one.  To  many  of  us  this  building 
conforms  to  the  lines  of  a  great  cathedral,  its  spire 
pointing  to  God.  We  are  a  serious  people,  and  at 
times  are  open  to  serious  influences.  Tonight  we  are 
celebrating  the  completion  of  one  of  the  great  struc- 
tures of  the  world,  one  which  lends  lustre  to  the 
beginning  of  this  new  century.  Let  us  make  this 
dinner  memorable  by  an  innovation  which  may 
appear  to  you  unusual,  but  which  seems  to  me  to  be 
especially  fitting.  I  ask  you  to  rise  and  sing  the  Dox- 
ology,  in  long  meter. 

{The  audience  arose  and  sang  the  Doxology,) 


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THE  •  DINNER 


THE  DINNER 
ASTRAKHAN  CAVIAR 

RADISHES  OLIVES  SALTED  NUTS 

Amontillado  COTUIT  OYSTERS,  MIGNONETTE  SAUCE 

chablis  clear  green  turtle  soup 

PARMESAN  STRAWS 

TURBAN  OF  POMPANO 

POTATOES,  AUSTRIAN  STYLE 
CELERY  KNOB  AND  WATER  CRESS  SALAD 

PoNTET  Canet    breast  of  GUINEA  HEN,  NESSELRODE  SAUCE 

TERRAPIN,  BALTIMORE  STYLE 

Cigarettes  ROYAL  PUNCH 

Cordon  Rouge  ROAST  SQUAB 

GUAVA  JELLY 

WALNUT  AND  GRAPEFRUIT  SALAD,  KUROKI 

SunntsidePort  frozen  bomb 

fancy  cakes 


Apollinaris 
Cigars 


COFFEE 


THE  •  SPEAKERS 


THE  SPEAKERS 


F.  HoPKiNSON  Smith,  Presiding 

Frank  W.  Woolworth 
*^The  Architect  and  the  Builder'' 

Cass  Gilbert,  Responding 
''The  Architect'' 

Louis  J.  Horowitz,  Responding. 
''The  Builder" 

William  Winter 
"The  Artist  and  The  Woolworth  Building" 

Hon.  W.  U.  Hensel 
"Early  Days  of  Frank  W,  Woolworth" 

Patrick  Francis  Murphy 
"Individuality  and  The  Woolworth  Building" 


•  APPRECIATION 


AN  APPRECIATION 


In  the  middle  ages  master  minds  labored  and 
brought  forth  those  massive  edifices  dedicated  to  wor- 
ship, noble  cathedrals  whose  beauty  has  for  centuries 
charmed  the  pilgrims  to  their  doors.  In  our  day  an- 
other dreamer  beheld  a  vision  of  a  wondrous  tower, 
refulgent  with  a  lustrous  glow,  embroidered  with  deli- 
cate tracery  and  set  with  pinnacles  of  attenuated  grace. 
From  this  master  mind  has  been  born  another  build- 
ing dedicated  to  trade — the  glory  of  a  continent,  the 
wonder  of  an  admiring  world. 

Gothic,  but  of  a  grace  that  softens  the  rugged 
austerity  of  the  ancient  type;  massive,  yet  with  a 
symmetry  that  binds  in  a  perfect  harmony  the  lofty 
tower  to  the  noble  building  below;  high  above  the 
other  truly  great  edifices,  its  neighbors,  the  Woolworth 
Building  rears  its  lofty  form  until  the  crowning  fleche 
reaches  the  amazing  height  of  seven  hundred  and 
ninety-one  feet  above  the  level  of  the  thoroughfares. 

A  dream,  but  realized  through  an  infinitude  of  de- 
tail. Each  of  the  hundreds  of  thousands  of  parts  con- 
ceived and  numbered  beforehand,  mile  upon  mile  of 
brick,  and  steel  and  stone,  in  a  constant  procession, 
never  ceasing,  never  late.  So  grew  this  brain-child  of 
the  man  inspired  by  a  vision — Cass  Gilbert. 

Nor  is  it  amiss  to  let  our  thoughts  revert  to  olden 
days,  to  that  hour  in  1609  when,  after  a  weary  pas- 
sage, Henry  Hudson  sailed  into  the  greatest  harbor  of 
the  world,  but  reahzed  it  not;  to  the  time  when  scarce 
four  years  after  came  Adrian  Block,  of  open  mind,  who 
saw  with  prophetic  eye  the  island  peopled  with  a  race 
whose  trade  should  reach  the  uttermost  parts  of  the 
globe;  to  the  day  when  the  Indian  owners  for  a  few 


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glass  beads  bartered  the  tract  of  land  where  now 
stands  the  greatest  group  of  buildings  in  all  the  world. 

Let  us  trace  the  growth  of  this  little  Dutch  trading 
post  through  years  of  homely  romance,  of  the  hewing 
of  trees,  of  a  new  house  here  and  there,  of  the  won- 
drous windmill,  the  sky-scraper  of  1631,  built  to 
beautify  as  well  as  serve,  a  stone's  throw  from  the 
site  of  the  Wool  worth  Building. 

The  jealous  eye  of  England,  however,  soon  lights 
upon  the  thriving  colony,  and  in  1664  its  fleet  of  war- 
ships anchors  off  the  Battery.  In  vain  protests  old 
Peter  Stuy  vesant,  Governor  of  the  Dutch ;  the  British 
land  and,  amid  the  roll  of  drums,  raise  the  flag  of 
England  over  the  city  Green.  Dutch  days  in  the 
colony  are  ended.  The  language  of  Holland  gives 
way  to  lEnglish.  New  Amsterdam  becomes  a  mem- 
ory and  New  York  receives  its  present  name. 

Who  can  record  the  genius  for  trade,  the  indomi- 
table spirit  that  ordered  the  growth  and  wealth  of  this 
new  community,  until  it  took  its  place  as  the  greatest 
commercial  city  in  the  world  and  second  to  but  one 
in  number  of  inhabitants?  Great  merchant  followed 
great  merchant  in  the  construction  of  a  mighty  com- 
merce, as  generation  followed  generation,  until  in 
these,  our  greatest  days,  we  find  a  man  who  has  con- 
ceived an  idea,  who  has  broadened  and  developed  it, 
until  he  ranks  a  peer  of  the  merchant  princes  of  all 
times — Frank  W.  Woolworth. 

Following  his  career,  we  find  him  possessed  of  the 
determination  to  erect  a  loftier  pile  than  aught  the 
world  has  seen.  Architects  and  master  builders  of  the 
day  are  called.  Each  bends  to  his  appointed  task :  one 
struggles  patiently,  and  his  reward — an  entrance 
majestic,  beautiful;  another  labors  long  and  earnestly. 


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a  month,  a  year,  of  drawing  and  redrawing,  of  disap- 
pointment and  inspiration,  and  lo !  a  hallway,  roofed 
with  perfect  arch,  studded  with  colors  soft  yet  lumi- 
nous, upborne  by  columns  of  matchless  grace  possessed 
with  strength  of  Titans — a  masterpiece.  For  comfort 
of  the  thousands  to  be  housed,  to  ease  their  burdens 
and  haste  the  busy  march  of  trade  another  strives; 
still  others  spin  the  potter's  wheel,  mold  and  caress 
the  inert  clay  to  catch  the  fleeting  curve  of  grace,  to 
beautify  the  windows  tier  on  tier,  and  break  the  sharp 
Unes  of  the  roof  against  the  sky.  Then  after  all  this 
labor,  heartache — ^joy,  we  have  this  monument,  white 
and  glistening  in  the  midday's  sun,  yet  softened  with 
delicate  touch  of  ecru,  mauve  and  green,  as  of  the 
oHve  grove  which,  when  the  sunset  glow  brightens  the 
western  skies,  reflects  to  all  who  see  a  wondrous  sheen 
as  of  the  copper  burnished  in  the  flames. 

Thus  grew  the  city,  and  thus  arose  this  greatest  of 
the  temples  of  commerce,  two  mighty  prodigies  of  a 
Western  World. 

W.  E.  T. 


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Brown,  Glenn  (73) 
Brown,  Rev.  S.  W.  (41) 
Brown,  W.  H.  (28) 
Bruce,  H.  Addington  (69) 
Bryan,  James  William  (1) 
Bryant,  Dr.  Joseph  D.  (41) 
Bryant,  Dr.  W.  Sohier  (26) 
Buckhout,  Frank  (1) 
Buckley,  James  (76) 
Buel,  C.  C.  (49) 
Burrell,  F.  A.  M.  (54) 
Burroughs,  Elton  (6) 
Bushnell,  Ericsson  F.  (54) 
Butler,  Ellis  Parker  (63) 


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Butler,  James  R.  (57) 
Butterly,  Charles  Joseph  (5) 
Butterworth,  B.  T.  (6) 
Butterworth,  R.  B.  (14) 
Byrne,  J.  J.  (79) 

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Caccavajo,  Joseph  (65) 
Callahan,  D.  J.  (76) 
Carpenter,  F.  B.  (16) 
Carter,  George  (12) 
Carter,  P.  G.  (78) 
Carse,  Henry  R.  (30) 
Case,  C.  P.  (24) 
Cashman,  Joseph  (74) 
Chesebrough,  W.  H.  (69) 
Chew,  Beverly  (37) 
Chichester,  Howard  (44) 
Childs,  Wm.  (51) 
Chittick,  R.  O.  (1) 
Church,  Col.  Wm.  C.  (76) 
Clark,  Lewis  S.  (58) 
Clarke,  T.  E.  (44) 
Clews,  Henry  (31) 
Cochran,  E.  A.  (14) 
Cochran,  James  (63) 
Cochran,  Thomas  (38) 
Coler,  Bird  S.  (73) 
Compton,  William  N.  (87) 
Cone,  Frederick  H.  (1) 
Conlan,  Frank  J.  (29) 
Connable,  Ralph  (22) 
Cook,  Charles  Emerson  (56) 
Cook,  Ernest  (2) 
Cook,  Robert  Grier  (52) 
Cook,  Walter  (74) 
Cordova,  Hon.  G.  S.  M.  PL  (A) 
Cornell,  Edward  (22) 
Cosby,  Col.  Spencer  (73) 


Grain,  Hon.  Thos.  C.  T.  (A) 
Cram,  J.  Sergeant  (47) 
Crawford,  John  H.  (12) 
Crawford,  William  (88) 
Creelman,  James  (49) 
Creighton,  Allen  (16) 
Creighton,  Claude  (16) 
Creighton,  T.  H.  (16) 
Creighton,  R.  L.  (16) 
Creveling,  George  (5) 
Crimmins,  John  D.  (47) 
Croll,  J.  S.  (14) 
Crompton,  W.  J.  (1) 
Croxton,  S.  W.  (83) 
Cruikshank,  Warren  (48) 
CuUen,  R.  J.  (59) 
Culver,  H.  K.  (29) 
Cummings,  George  E.  (75) 
Curran,  Henry  H.  (39) 
Currey,  Jonathan  B.  (75) 
Cutting,  Hurlbut  B.  (16) 

D 

da  Cunha,  Hon.  M.  J.  F.  (33) 
Daily,  Louis  B.  (6) 
Dana,  Dwight  (2) 
Danks,  B.  H.  (14) 
Darbyshire,  Percy  W.  (62) 
Davies,  J.  Clarence  (66) 
Davis,  Richard  Harding  (75) 
Day,  Frank  Miles  (71) 
Day,  Joseph  P.  (58) 
Day,  W.  A.  (69) 
DeBerard,  Frederick  B.  (75) 
Degnon,  M.  J.  (61) 
De  Lacy,  George  C.  (12) 
Delafield,  Dr.  Francis  (44) 
Demarest,  Wm.  Curtis  (86) 
de  Salas,  Hon.  F.  Javier  (33) 


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Dinwiddle,  J.  H.  (28) 
Dittenhoefer,  Hon.  A.  J.  (62) 
Dobson,  Meade  C.  (64) 
Dodge,  M.  Hartley  (45) 
Donohue,  Hon.  Frank  (A) 
Donahue,  James  P.  (46) 
Donald,  James  M.  (45) 
Donnelly,  John  (28) 
Donohue  (12) 
Doolittle,  J.  W.  (6) 
Douglas,  Archibald  (43) 
Douglas,  O.  F.,  Jr.  (16) 
DowHng,  Robert  E.  (32) 
Doyle,  James  (2) 
Doyle,  John  F.  (6) 
Duneka,  F.  A.  (75) 
Duross,  Charles  E.  (88) 

E 

Eames,  John  C.  (64) 
Earle,  E.  H.  (12) 
Eden,  L.  E.  (29) 
Edwards,  Geo.  Wharton  (56) 
Einhorn,  Dr.  Max  (75) 
Eliot,  Walter  G.  (71) 
Elliman,  Douglas  L.  (81) 
EUiman,  Lawrence  B.  (79) 
Ellis,  Geo.  A.,  Jr.  (46) 
ElHson,  William  B.  (82) 
ElHthorpe,  F.  T.  (59) 
Ellithorpe,  Gilbert  S.  (59) 
Ellner,  Joseph  (2) 
Ely,  Dr.  Albert  H.  (46) 
Ely,  Robert  Erskine  (65) 
English,  Benjamin  R.  (10) 
Enright,  R.  E.  (59) 
Escobar,  Hon.  Francisco  (3) 
Evans,  John  R.  (8) 
Evans,  William  T.  (50) 


F 

Faunce,  C.  H.  (14) 
Felsinger,  William  (67) 
Finck,  Henry  T.  (62) 
Finegan,  Austin  (86) 
Frinkel,  Emil  (55) 
Finlay,  Charles  E.  (52) 
Finlay,  Dr.  John  H.  (26) 
Fischer,  Adolpho  H.  (87) 
Fisher,  WilUam  (2) 
Fisk,  Wilbur  C.  (58) 
Flagg,  Ernest  (35) 
Fletcher,  F.  Irving  (82) 
Flint,  Dr.  Austin  (37) 
Flint,  Charles  R.  (57) 
Flower,  Frederick  S.  (43) 
Flynn,  W.  J.  (87) 
Ford,  Martin  (2) 
Fosco,  Charles  (60) 
Foster,  Hon.  W.  W.  (32) 
Fowler,  Hon.  Robt.  L.  (32) 
Frantz,  P.  G.  (14) 
Frazee,  John  (34) 
Freeman,  William  C.  (80) 
French,  Daniel  C.  (75) 
Frew,  Walter  E.  (30) 
Friedmann,  Dr.  A.  C.  H.  (56) 
Frothingham,  E.  V.  (39) 

G 

Gage,  B.  W.  (22) 
Gaillard,  W.  E.  G.  (A) 
Garth,  Henry  (60) 
Gary,  Hon.  Elbert  H.  (37) 
Gehring,  Charles  E.  (53) 
George,  Edwin  Stanton  (8) 
Gerry,  Robert  L.  (51) 
Gibson,  Charles  Dana  (35) 
Gil,  Hon.  Mario  L.  (33) 


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Gilbert,  Cass  (A) 
Gilbert,  Cass,  Jr.  (29) 
Gitterman,  A.  N.  (82) 
Gladding,  Walter  M.  (63) 
Cleaves,  Capt.  A.,  U.S.N.  (35) 
Golding,  John  N.  (79) 
Gore,  Hon.  Thos.  P.  (A) 
Grant,  Rollin  P.  (45) 
Grave,  F.  D.  (10) 
Green,  Robert  W.  (58) 
Grifenhagen,  Max  S.  (40) 
Griffin,  H.  S.  (20) 
Griswold,  C.  C.  (18) 
Guy,  Hon.  Charles  L.  (A) 

H 

Hagarty,  George  V.  (38) 
Hamilton,  W.  P.  (67) 
Hammill,  Hon.  F.  H.  (27) 
Haney,  Edward  J.  (86) 
Handel,  George  (88) 
Hall,  Rev.  Frank  O.  (65) 
Halsey,  Francis  W.  (62) 
Harburger,  Julius  (52) 
Hardenbergh,  Louis  (80) 
Harman,  John  N.  (67) 
Harmon,  Clifford  B.  (81) 
Hartfield,  William  (68) 
Harvey,  Col.  George  (49) 
Hatch,  Edward,  Jr.  (62) 
Hatfield,  Hon.  Chas.  E.  (42) 
Hatfield,  Henry  (2) 
Hatfield,  Joshua  A.  (58) 
Hawley,  Charles  Beach  (81) 
Hawley,  John  H.  (68) 
Haynes,  Lathrop  C.  (30) 
Hearn,  George  A.  (57) 
Hecht,  Samuel  (3) 
Heins,  John  W.  (41) 


Hendricks,  J.  W.  (78) 
Hensel,  W.  U.  (A) 
Hessler,  Dr.  H.  P.  (10) 
Hester,  William  (49) 
Hetrick,  John  N.  (4) 
Hickey,  Charles  A.  (59) 
Hill,  John  R.  (18) 
Hill,  Oliver  B.  (81) 
Hilles,  Charles  D.  (58) 
Hines,  Edward  (5) 
Hitchcock,  J.  F.  (44) 
Hitchcock,  S.  M.  (66) 
Hogan,  Edw.  J.  (31) 
Hogan,  John  (12) 
Holden,  Frank  H.  (87) 
Holden,  L.  C.  (87) 
Holmes,  E.  T.  (4) 
Holmes,  Dr.  (29) 
Holtzman,  S.  F.  (29) 
Hope,  W.  C.  (86) 
Hopkins,  J.  M.  (59) 
Home,  Frank  A.  (82) 
Horowitz,  Louis  J.  (A) 
Horton,  H.  L.  (46) 
Houston,  Herbert  S.  (68) 
Hugo,  Hon.  Francis  M.  (26) 
Hunt,  Dr.  Leigh  (61) 
Hunt,  Leavitt  J.  (62) 
Hutchinson,  Frank  J.  (20) 
Hutchinson,  H.  F.  (24) 
Hutton,  E.  F.  (46) 
Hutton,  Franklyn  L.  (46) 

I 

Ide,  John  J.  (78) 
Imhoff,  Charles  H.  (54) 
Ingersoll,  Ernest  (36) 
Irwin,  Harry  C.  (5) 
Ivie,  A.  E.  (22) 


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Jaeger,  Dr.  Charles  H.  (55) 
James,  Hon.  Ollie  K.  (A) 
Janvier,  Thomas  A.  (69) 
Johnson,  Dr.  Jos.  F.  (57) 
Johnson,  Joseph  (39) 
Johnson,  Robert  U.  (34) 
Johnson,  Thomas  R.  (29) 
Johnson,  Walter  A.  (56) 
Jones,  E.  Clarence  (43) 
Jones,  W.  O.  (76) 
Jorrin,  Hon.  Julio  S.  (33) 
Joyce,  William  B.  (30) 

K 

Kahn,  Otto  H.  (37) 
Kastriner,  Maurice  (3) 
Keese,  Frank  H.  (29) 
Kelley,  Halsey  W.  (76) 
Kelly,  John  T.  (3) 
Kelsey,  Clarence  H.  (30) 
Kerwin,  N.  L.  (27) 
Kennelly,  Bryan  L.  (70) 
Kihani,  Dr.  Otto  G.  T.  (76) 
Kimball,  Ingalls  (66) 
King,  Frederick  A.  (68) 
King,  WiUard  V.  (61) 
Kingsley,  Darwin  P.  (47) 
Kinney,  M.  Curtis  (12) 
Klein,  Emil  (64) 
Kirby,  F.  M.  (24) 
Knox,  Henry  D.  (22) 
Knox,  Charles  E.  (52) 
Knox,  Charles  E.  (29) 
Kohns,  Lee  (77) 
Kolb,  George  (38) 
Kost,  Frederick  W.  (49) 
Krell,  Albert  (81) 
Kunz,  Dr.  Geo.  L.  (68) 


La  Farge,  C.  Grant  (35) 
Lamb,  Charles  R.  (66) 
Landon,  George  (7) 
Langill,  Charles  H.  (77) 
Leaycraft,  J.  Edgar  (70) 
Lederle,  Dr.  Ernst  J.  (39) 
Lee,  Frederic  G.  (63) 
Leipziger,  Henry  M.  (52) 
Leslie,  Warren  (66) 
Lewis,  Nelson  P.  (39) 
Lincoln,  J.  C.  (58) 
Lloyd,  Charles  C.  (42) 
Loeb,  WiUiam,  Jr.  (32) 
Long,  John  Luther  (53) 
Lott,  John  Z.  (63) 
Lounsbury,  Phineas  C.  (31) 
Lounsbury,  Thomas  R.  (34) 
Loomis,  E.  E.  (82) 
Luby,  James  (69) 
Luke,  Adam  K.  (63) 
Luke,  John  G.  (51) 
Lynch,  James  W.  (27) 
Lyons,  Howard  J.  (81) 

M 

Major,  Duncan  K.  (14) 
Mansfield,  Burton  (10) 
Markham,  Edwin  (71) 
Markowitz,  A.  Lincoln  (80) 
Marks,  Marcus  M.  (67) 
MarHng,  Alfred  E.  (61) 
Marsh,  Mr.  (82) 
Marshall,  James  Rush  (61) 
Marston,  Edgar  L.  (31) 
Martin,  Henry  (3) 
Martin,  John  J.  (64) 
Martindale,  Jos.  B.  (31) 
Matteossian,  Z.  N.  (28) 


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Matteson,  Warner  B.  (78) 
Matthai,  William  H.  (38) 
May,  Jas.  B.  (18) 
Mead,  S.  C.  (67) 
Meader,  Herman  Lee  (81) 
Mehle,  Fred  (3) 
Merrill,  Bradford  (69) 
Metz,  Herman  A.  (50) 
Meyers,  James  Cowden  (77) 
Meyer,  Dr.  Willy  (44) 
Miller,  E.  H.  (18) 
Miller,  H.  W.  (77) 
Miller,  Rudolph  P.  (39) 
Mills,  Frederick  H.  (38) 
Mitchell,  Sidney  Z.  (48) 
Moffett,  Cleveland  (71) 
Mohn,  Joseph  F.  (28) 
Molesphini,  Charles  (3) 
Moody,  H.  A.  (24) 
Moore,  Robert  R.  (39) 
Moore,  W.  H.  (24) 
Morch,  Thomas  (86) 
Morgan,  Edward  M.  (47) 
Morgan,  Wm.  Fellows  (34) 
Morgenthau,  Henry  (31) 
Morgenthau,  M.,  Jr.,  (37) 
Morris,  Robert  G.  (5) 
Morrissey,  James  H.  (27) 
Morse,  Daniel  P.  (48) 
Mortimer,  Geo.  T.  (61) 
Morton,  William  C.  (77) 
Moss,  Frank  (36) 
MuUigan,  Joseph  T.  (86) 
Munn,  Dr.  J.  P.  (47) 
Murphy,  John  J.  (40) 
Murphy,  Patrick  F.  (A) 
Muschenheim,  Wm.  C.  (72) 


Mc. 

McAdoo,  Hon.  Wm.  (32) 
McAtamney,  Hugh  A.  (34) 
McBride,  Hon.  A.  F.  (26) 
McBrier,  E.  M.  (20) 
McCann,  Charles  E.  F.  (43) 
McCall,  Hon.  E.  E.  (A) 
McCarroll,  William  (84) 
McCarthy,  Charles  R.  (7) 
McCarthy,  George  W.  (7) 
McCreery,  J.  Crawford  (82) 
McClain,  Hon.  F.  B.  (26) 
McClure,  S.  S.  (49) 
McCrosson,  E.  (80) 
McGann,  James  E.  (27) 
McGrath,  Hon.  John  F.  (27) 
McHarg,  Ormsby  (73) 
McHenry,  Edwin  D.  (59) 
McKinny,  William  (72) 
McLaughlin,  Frank  (80) 
MacLean,  W.  B.  (8) 
MacLellan,  Geo.  P.  (64) 
MacMullen,  Rev.  W.  (65) 

N 

Nash,  William  A.  (37) 
Nash,  Willis  G.  (48) 
Nelke,  David  L  (68) 
Nelson,  M.  J.  (78) 
Newberry,  C.  T.  (20) 
Newberry,  W.  F.  (20) 
Newman,  W.  G.  (88) 
Nichols,  James  E.  (45) 
Nicholson,  Arthur  T.  (3) 
Nissen,  Ludwig  (57) 
Nixon,  Lewis  (36) 
Norton,  William  (74) 
Noyes,  Charles  F.  (86) 
Nutting,  E.  Z.  (20) 
Nygren,  Werner  (29) 


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Oberndorfer,  Nat.  (88) 
O'Brien,  Hon.  M.  J.  (36) 
O'Connell,  Dr.  John  J.  (40) 
Ogden,  George  D.  (72) 
Ohmes,  Arthur  K.  (29) 
O'Keeffe,  Arthur  J.  (40) 
OUesheimer,  Henry  (42) 
Oppenheim,  James  (77) 
Orcutt,  B.  S.  (85) 
Osborn,  C.  M.  (20) 
O'SuUivan,  Hon.  T.  C.  (32) 
Owen,  F.  CunHffe  (53) 


Palme,  Julius  (44) 
Pankin,  George  (3) 
Parish,  John  L.  (70) 
Parmelee,  E.  D.  (28) 
Parson,  Hubert  T.  (24) 
Partington,  F.  E.  (65) 
Partridge,  Wm.  O.  (75) 
Pascal,  Frank  L.  (4) 
Paul,  Frederick  W.  (84) 
Pearson,  Dr.  Charles  E.  (44) 
Pearson,  John  B.  (44) 
Pease,  W.  Albert  (82) 
Peck,  Carson  C.  (24) 
Peck,  F.  L.  (84) 
Peck,  George  (85) 
Peirce,  John  (52) 
Pennock,  H.  Hardcastle  (56) 
Penrose,  John  J.  (7) 
Peple,  Edward  (56) 
Perkins,  Charles  E.  (48) 
Perry,  R.  Smith  (24) 
Phillips,  Barnett  (85) 
Pine,  John  B.  (67) 
Pfeiffer,  C.  G.  (42) 


Phillips,  E.  S.  J.,  Jr.  (28) 
Picket,  Col.  Chas.  W.  (27) 
Pierson,  Lewis  E.  (45) 
Pinover,  Irving  (4) 
Flatten,  John  W.  (72) 
Pratt,  Seano  S.  (70) 
Plant,  Albert  (84) 
Polhemus,  Henry  W.  (80) 
PoH,  S.  Z.  (27) 
Pothier,  Hon.  Aram  J.  (A) 
Powell,  WiUiam  H.  (85) 
Pratt,  Sereno  S.  (70) 
Provan,  David  B.  (59) 
Pugsley,  Cornelius  A.  (30) 
Pulitzer,  Ralph  (43) 
Purdy,  Lawson  (40) 

Q 

Quackenbos,  Dr.  John  D.  (34) 
Quinby,  J.  G.  (84) 
Quinlan,  James  (30) 
Quinn,  Thomas  C.  (71) 
Quint,  Wilder  Dwight  (71) 

R 

Rapp,  John  W.  (85) 
Ramsay,  Dick  S.  (37) 
Ramsey,  J.,  Jr.  (67) 
Randall,  W.  L.  (64) 
Rankin,  M.  J.  (18) 
Ransdell,  Hon.  Joseph  (A) 
Rascovar,  Frank  James  (79) 
Rascovar,  Harry  (79) 
Rascovar,  James  (79) 
Read,  Rex  D.  (28) 
Reardon,  J.  W.  (64) 
Rebele,  O.  (8) 
Reilly,  WiUiam  J.  (64) 
Reisinger,  Hugo  (50) 


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Reynolds,  John  (22) 
Reynolds,  John  (20) 
Reynolds,  Myron  T.  (70) 
Ricci,  Eliseo  V.  (28) 
Rice,  Hon.  Frank  J.  (26) 
Rice,  Hyland  P.  (79) 
Richey,  A.  S.  (27) 
Rivas,  Hon.  Santiago  (33) 
Roberts,  E.  J.  (7) 
Robinson,  Allan  (37) 
Robinson,  Edward  (83) 
Robinson,  Hon.  Jos.  T.  (A) 
Robinson,  L.  W.  (10) 
Rockart,  John  R.  (29) 
Rosenberg,  Arthur  (27) 
Rothschild,  Louis  F.  (46) 
Rouland,  Orlando  (74) 
Rountree,  Bernard  (78) 
Royal,  Hon.  John  K.  (26) 
Rudolph,  Cuno  H.  (50) 
Rutter,  Horace  (8) 

S 

Sachs,  Samuel  (47) 
Samstag,  Henry  F.  (38) 
Sandberg,  Dag.  (28) 
Saymon,  Max  (5) 
Schenck,  Edwin  S.  (43) 
Schenck,  Henry  A.  (37) 
Schlesinger,  Leo.  (42) 
Schneider,  W.  F.  (59) 
Schnitzer,  William  M.  (83) 
Schoeneck,  Hon.  Edward  (26) 
Schoonmaker,  J.  H.  (42) 
Schuyler,  Montgomery  (52) 
Schuyler,  Montgomery,  Jr.  (52) 
Scott,  Douglas  Grant  (84) 
Scott,  Walter  (42) 
Scribner,  Arthur  H.  (49) 


Scully,  P.  J.  (83) 
Seamans,  Clarence  W.  (61) 
Seed,  John  H.  (48) 
Seitz,  Don  C.  (72) 
Seldon,  Charles  H.  (85) 
Severance,  C.  A.  (50) 
Seymour,  E.  F.  (43) 
Seymour,  George  W.  (27) 
Seymour,  Julius  H.  (43) 
Shaffer,  G.  F.  (28) 
Shannon,  WiUiam  E.  (84) 
Shaw,  Bernard  (7) 
Shaw,  F.  Angus  (72) 
Shone,  R.  H.  (5) 
Sigsbee,  Rear  Admiral 

Chas.  D.,  U.S.N.  (35) 
Silverman,  Rev.  Joseph  (65) 
Simmons,  E.  A.  (69) 
Simon,  Robert  E.  (50) 
Skinner,  Wilham  (45) 
Sleicher,  John  A.  (72) 
Slosson,  Edward  (8) 
Smith,  F.  Berkeley  (35) 
Smith,  F.  Hopkinson  (A) 
Smith,  P.  R.  (83) 
Smith,  R.  A.  C.  (40) 
Smith,  T.  R.  (56) 
Smith,  W.  T.  (83) 
Snow,  Elbridge  G.  (55) 
Snyder,  Alex.  C.  (63) 
Sorzono,  JuUo  F.  (33) 
Spencer,  George  Frink  (78) 
Speyer,  James  (47) 
Starkie,  John  W.  (84) 
Starrett,  Paul  (50) 
Steers,  Alfred  E.  (32) 
Stephens,  Wm.  H.  (4) 
Stern,  Louis  (41) 
Stevens,  John  F.  (50) 


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Stevens,  William  W.  (28) 
Stickel,  Frederick  G.  (60) 
Stoddard,  Henry  L.  (49) 
Storrow,  James  J.  (35) 
Strobel,  E.  (42) 
Sullivan,  Daniel  T.  (27) 
Sullivan,  Thomas  H.  (10) 
Sunter,  Wm.  R.  (29) 
Sutherland,  E.  G.  (4) 
Sutton,  Frank  (55) 
Sutton,  Horace  L.  (55) 
Sweet,  Benjamin  H.  (88) 

T 

Taft,  Frank  (41) 
Tarbell,  Gage  E.  (65) 
Taylor,  S.  Frederic  (51) 
Tebbs,  Robert  W.  (88) 
Tener,  Hampden  E.  (85) 
Tenney,  Theodore  S.  (29) 
Tesla,  Nicola  (71) 
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von  Briesen,  Arthur  (67) 
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GUESTS  •  BY  •  TABLES 


TABLE  A 


1.  C.  S.  Woolworth. 

2.  Hon.  Frank  Donohue. 

3.  W.  E.  G.  Gaillard. 

4.  Hon.  T.  C.  T.  Grain. 

5.  Hon.  Joseph  E.  Ransdell. 

6.  Hon.  Thomas  P.  Gore. 

7.  Patrick  Francis  Murphy. 

8.  Louis  J.  Horowitz. 

9.  F.  Hopkinson  Smith. 

10.  F.  W.  Woolworth. 

11.  Cass  Gilbert. 

12.  Hon.  Aram  J.  Pothier. 

13.  WiUiam  Winter. 

14.  Hon.  Gonzales  S.  Cordova,  Minister 

Plenipotentiary,  Ecuador. 

15.  W.  U.  Hensel. 

16.  Hon.  Ollie  K.  James. 

17.  Hon.  Charles  L.  Guy. 

18.  Hon.  D.  J.  Walsh. 

19.  Hon.  Edward  E.  McCall. 

20.  Hon.  Joseph  T.  Robinson. 

Tables  for  Congressional  Guests 

TABLE  9 

Adair,  John  A.  M.,  Indiana. 
Barchfield,  A.  J.  (M.  C),  Pennsylvania. 
Barnhart,  Henry  A.,  Indiana. 
Batlirick,  Ellsworth  R.,  Ohio. 
Borchers,  Charles  M.,  Illinois. 
Broussard,  Robert  F.,  Louisiana. 
Brown,  William  G.,  West  Virginia. 

TABLE  11 

Bulkley,  Robert  J.,  Ohio. 
Byrnes,  James  F.,  South  Carolina. 
Byrnes,  Joseph  W.,  Tennessee. 


Callaway,  Oscar,  Texas. 
Candler,  Ezekiel  S.,  Jr.,  Mississippi. 
Cantrill,  James  C,  Kentucky. 
Cary,  William  J.,  Wisconsin. 
Connolly,  Maurice,  Iowa. 

TABLE  13 

Conroy,  Michael  F.,  New  York. 
Crosser,  Robert,  Iowa. 
Davenport,  James  S.,  Oklahoma. 
Decker,  P.  D.,  Missouri. 
Dixon,  Lincoln,  Indiana. 
Doremus,  Frank  E.,  Michigan. 
Driscoll,  Daniel  A.,  New  York. 
Dupre,  H.  Garland,  Louisiana. 

TABLE  15 

Dyer,  L.  C,  Missouri. 
Edwards,  Charles  G.,  Georgia. 
Esch,  John  J.,  Wisconsin. 
Eversman,  Hon.  John,  Assistant  Secretary  Na- 
tional Republican  Committee. 
Fairchild,  G.  W.,  New  York. 
Ferguson,  Harvey  B.,  New  Mexico. 
Ferris,  Scott,  Oklahoma. 
Finley,  David  E.,  South  Carolina. 

TABLE  17 

Francis,  W.  B.,  Ohio. 
Gallagher,  Thomas,  Illinois. 
Garner,  John  N.,  Texas. 
Gittins,  Robert  H.,  New  York. 
Godwin,  Hannibal  L.,  New  York. 
Goeke,  J.  Henry,  Ohio. 
Goldfogle,  Henry  M.,  New  York. 
Good,  James  W.,  Iowa. 


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TABLE  19 


Goodwin,  William  S.,  Arkansas. 
Gordon,  Robert  B. 
Graham,  James  M.,  Illinois. 
Griest,  James  A.,  Pennsylvania. 
Hamill,  James  A.,  New  Jersey. 
Hamlin,  Courtney  W.,  Missouri. 
Hardy,  Rufus,  Texas. 
Hawley,  William  C,  Oregon. 

TABLE  21 

Heflin,  J.  Thomas,  Alabama. 
Helm,  Harvey,  Kentucky. 
Hensley,  Walter  L.,  Missouri. 
HUl,  R.  P.,  Illinois. 
Hughes,  James  A.,  West  Virginia. 
Hull,  Cordell,  Tennessee. 
Jacoway,  Henderson  M.,  Arkansas. 
Keating,  Edward,  Colorado. 

TABLE  23 

Kennedy,  Charles  A.,  Iowa. 
Kirkpatrick,  S.,  Iowa. 
Kleburg,  Dr.  A.  J.,  Washington. 
LafoUette,  William  L.,  Washington. 
Langham,  J.  L.,  Washington. 
Lever,  Asbury  F.,  South  Carolina. 
Mapes,  Carl  E.,  Michigan. 
McAndrews,  James,  Illinois. 

TABLE  25 

McDermott,  James  T.,  Illinois. 
McGuire,  Bird  S.,  Oklahoma. 
Merritt,  Edwin  A.,  Jr.,  New  York. 
Morgan,  Louis  L.,  Louisiana. 
Murray,  William  F.,  Massachusetts. 
Murray,  William. 
Murray,  W.  H.,  Oklahoma. 
O'Hair,  Frank  T.,  Illinois. 


TABLE  9A 


Page,  Tyler,  Washington. 
Patton,  Charles  E.,  Pennsylvania. 
Pepper,  I.  S.,  Iowa. 
Prince,  Ben.,  Washington. 
Ranch,  George  W.,  Indiana. 
Reilly,  Thomas  L.,  Connecticut. 
Rothermel,  John  H.,  Pennsylvania. 

TABLE  9B 

Rouse,  Arthur  B.,  Kentucky. 
Rubey,  Thomas  L.,  Missouri. 
Russell,  Joseph  J.,  Missouri. 
Sabath,  Adolph  J.,  Illinois. 
Saunders,  E.  W.,  Virginia. 
Sherwood,  Isaac  R.,  Ohio. 
Sinnot,  J.  J. 

Sisson,  Thomas  U.,  Mississippi. 

TABLE  9C 
South,  Jerry. 

Stanley,  Augusta  O.,  Kentucky. 
Stephens,  John  H.,  Texas. 
Stone,  Claudius  IT.,  Illinois. 
Stout,  Thomas,  Montana. 
Stringer,  L.  B.,  Illinois. 
Tavenner,  Clyde  H.,  Illinois. 
Taylor,  Sam  M.,  Arkansas. 

TABLE  9D 

Trimble,  South. 
Walker,  J.  R.,  Georgia. 
Weaver,  Claude,  Oklahoma. 
West,  Henry  L.,  Washington. 
Whitacre,  John  J.,  Ohio. 
WilHams,  W.  E.,  Illinois. 
Wilson,  Emmett,  Florida. 
Wingo,  Otis  T.,  Arkansas. 
Woods,  Frank  P.,  Iowa. 


TABLE  1 


Ahearn,  H.  A. 
Austin,  Frederick  A. 
Bridgeman,  Robert 
Bryan,  James  William 


Buckhout,  Frank 
Chittick,  R.  O. 
Crompton,  W.  J. 
Cone,  Frederick  H. 


Cook,  Ernest 
Dana,  Dwight 
Tevis,  Charies  V. 
Doyle,  James 


TABLE  2 

Ellner,  Joseph 
Fisher,  William 
Ford,  Martin 
Hatfield,  Henry 


TABLE  3 


Hecht,  Samuel 
Kastriner,  Maurice 
Kelly,  John  T. 
Martin,  Henry 


Mehle,  Fred 
Molesphini,  Charles 
Nicholson,  Arthur  T. 
Pankin,  George 


Pascal,  Frank  L. 
Stephens,  William  H. 
Sutherland,  E.  G. 
Holmes,  E.  T. 


TABLE  4 

Thew,  Harvey  P. 
Vaughan,  Benjamin  A. 
Pinover,  Irving 
Hetrick,  John  N. 


TABLE  5 

Saymon,  Max  Irwin,  Harry  C. 

Creveling,  George  Shone,  R.  H. 

Butterly,  Charles  Joseph  Davidson,  E.  M. 

Hines,  Edward  Morris,  Robert  G. 


Bell,  Edwin 
Butterworth,  B.  T. 
Burroughs,  Elton 
Barker,  William 


TABLE  6 

Barrett,  James  M. 
Dailey,  Louis  B. 
Doolittle,  J.  W. 
Doyle,  John  F. 


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TABLE  7 


McCarthy,  Charles  R.  Borden,  Glent  D. 

McCarthy,  George  W.  Vought,  F.  D. 

Shaw,  Bernard  Roberts,  E.  J. 

Landon,  George  Penrose,  John  J. 


Thomsen,  W.  E. 
Brown,  Gerald  R. 
Slosson,  Edward 
George,  Edwin  S. 


TABLE  8 

MacLean,  W.  B, 
Rutter,  Horace 
Rebele,  Otto 
Evans,  John  R. 


TABLE  10 

English,  Benj.  R.  Robinson,  L.  W. 

Hessler,  Dr.  H.  P.  Sullivan,  Thomas  H. 

Grave,  F.  D.  Troup,  Alexander 

Mansfield,  Burton  Watrous,  Dr.  George  D. 


Kinney,  M.  Curtis 
Earl,  E.  H. 
Bert, 

Crawford,  John  H. 


TABLE  12 

Donohue, 
Hogan,  John 
De  Lacy,  George  C. 
Carter,  George 


TABLE  14 


Frantz,  P.  G. 
Butterworth,  R.  B. 
CroU,  J.  S. 
Danks,  B.  H. 


Faunce,  C.  H. 

Major,  Duncan  Kennedy 

Cochran,  E.  A. 

Troy,  J.  U. 


Creighton,  Allan 
Creighton,  Claude 
Creighton,  R.  L. 
Creighton,  T.  H. 


TABLE  16 

Albright,  Harry  H. 
Carpenter,  F.  B. 
Cutting,  Hubert  B. 
Douglas,  O.  F.,  Jr. 


Valentine,  C.  F. 
Bradbury,  E.  J. 
May,  James  B. 
Rankin,  M.  J. 


Griffin,  H.  L. 
McBrier,  E.  M. 
Newberry,  W.  F. 
Osborne,  C.  M. 


Ivie,  Alvin  E. 
Bardol,  E.  A. 
Cornell,  Edward 
Weckesser,  F.  J. 


Case,  C.  P. 
Kirby,  F.  M. 
Moody,  H.  A. 
Moore,  W.  H. 


TABLE  18 

Winslow,  C.  E. 
Hill,  John  R. 
Miller,  E.  H. 
Griswold,  C.  C. 

TABLE  20 

Hutchinson,  Frank  J. 
Newberry,  C.  T. 
Nutting,  E.  C. 
Reynolds,  John 

TABLE  22 

Gage,  B.  W. 
Conable,  Ralph 
Knox,  Henry  D. 
Williams,  Walter 

TABLE  24 

Peck,  Carson  C. 
Parson,  H.  T. 
Perry,  R.  Smith 
Hutchinson,  H.  F. 
Carter,  Com.  F.  F. 


TABLE  26 

Hugo,  Hon.  Francis  M.  Royal,  Hon.  John  K. 

McBride,  Hon.  A.  F.  Schoeneck,  Hon.  Edward 

McClain,  Hon.  Frank  B.  Wittpen,  Hon.  H.  Otto 

Rice,  Hon.  Frank  J.  Finley,  Dr.  John  Huston 

Bryant,  Dr.  W.  Soheir 


TABLE  27 


Morrissey,  James  H. 
McGann,  James  E. 
Picket,  Col.  Charles  W. 
Sullivan,  Daniel  T. 
Seymour,  George  W. 
Richey,  E.  S. 
Rosenberg,  Arthur 
Tilton,  Edward  L. 


Amrhyn,  G.  X. 
Poli,  S.  Z. 

McGrath,  Hon.  John  F. 
Lynch,  James  W. 
Thorns,  WilUam  E. 
Kerwin,  N.  L. 
Hammill,  Hon.  Frank  H. 
Toch,  Henry  M. 


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TABLE  28 


Webster,  Albert  L. 
Matteossian,  Z.  N. 
Mohn,  Joseph  F. 
Parmelee,  E.  D. 
Phillips,  E.  S.  J.,  Jr. 
Read,  Rex  D. 
Shaflfer,  Guy  F. 
Stevens,  William  W. 


Aus,  Gunvald 
Donnelly,  John 
Ricci,  Eliseo  V. 
Van  Dusen,  H.  B. 
Dinwiddle,  J.  H. 
Sandberg,  Dag 
Blackwell,  George 
Brown,  W.  H. 


Sunter,  William  R, 
Rockart,  John  R. 
Johnson,  Thomas  R. 
Wells,  George  H. 
Holmes,  Dr. 
Conlan,  Frank  J. 
Culver,  Harry  R. 
Eden,  Louis  E. 


TABLE  29 

Keese,  Franklin  H. 
Berle,  Kort 
Holtzman,  S.  F. 
Nygren,  Werner 
Gilbert,  Cass,  Jr. 
Tenney,  Theodore  S. 
Ohmes,  Arthur  K. 
Knox,  Charles  E. 


TABLE  30 


Carse,  Henry  R. 
Kelsey,  Clarence  H. 
Frew,  Walter  E. 
Joyce,  William  B. 


Pugsley,  C.  A. 
Quinlan,  James 
Vreeland,  H.  H. 
Haynes,  Lathrop  C. 


Lounsbury,  P.  C. 
Marston,  Edgar 
Morgenthau,  Henry 
Underwood,  F.  D. 


TABLE  31 


Clews,  Henry 
Bright,  Louis  A. 
Hogan,  Edward  J. 
Martindale,  Joseph  P. 


TABLE  32 


Schwab,  Chas.  M. 
Foster,  Hon.  Warren  W. 
Fowler,  Hon.  Robert  L. 
McAdoo,  Hon.  William 


0*Sullivan,  Hon.  Thomas  G. 
Dowling,  Robert  E. 
Steers,  Alfred  E. 
Loeb,  William,  Jr. 


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Gil,  Hon.  Mario  L. 
Sorzano,  Julio  F. 
Rivas,  Hon.  Santiago 
Ballivian,  Hon.  Adolfo 


TABLE  33 

da  Cunha,  Hon.  M.  J.  F. 
Escobar,  Hon.  Francisco 
Jorrin,  Hon.  Julio  Sorzano 
de  Salas,  Hon.  F.  Javier 


TABLE  34 

Lounsbury,  Thomas  R.  Quackenbos,  Dr.  John  D. 

Barrett,  John  Winter,  Jefferson 

Morgan,  William  Fellows  McAtamney,  Hugh  A. 

Johnson,  Robert  Underwood      Frazee,  John 

TABLE  35 

Starrows,  James  J.  Flagg,  Ernest 

Towne,  Henry  R.  Gibson,  Charles  Dana 

Sigsbee,  Admiral  Chas.  D.         La  Farge,  C.  Grant 
Smith,  F.  Berkeley  Gleaves,  Capt.  Albert 

TABLE  36 

Nixon,  Lewis  Webb,  J.  Watson 

O'Brien,  Hon.  Morgan  J.  Welling,  Hon.  Richard 


Ingersoll,  Ernest 
Moss,  Frank 


Robinson,  Allan 
Chew,  Beverly 
Flint,  Dr.  Austin 
Gary,  Elbert  H. 


Arnould,  D. 
Benjamin,  George 
Cochrane,  Thomas 
Hagarty,  George  V. 

Adamson,  Robert 
Curran,  Henry  H. 
Frothingham,  E.  V. 
Johnson,  Joseph 


Williams,  George  T. 
Von  Helmolt,  Charles 

TABLE  37 

Kahn,  Otto 
Schenck,  Henry  A. 
Ramsey,  Dick  S. 
Morgenthau,  M.,  Jr. 

TABLE  38 

Kolb,  George 
Matthai,  W.  H. 
Mills,  F.  H. 
Samstag,  H.  T. 

TABLE  39 

Lederle,  Dr.  Ernst  J. 
Lewis,  Nelson  P. 
Miller,  Rudolph  P. 
Moore,  Robert  R. 


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O'Connell,  John  J. 
O'Keefe,  Arthur  J. 
Purdy,  Lawson 
Waldo,  Rhinelander 

Taft,  Frank 
Heins,  John  W. 
Votey,  E. 
Brown,  Rev.  S.  W. 

Ollesheimer,  Henry 
Lloyd,  Charles  C. 
Scott,  Walter 
Pfeiffer,  C.  G. 

Battle,  George  Gordon 
Douglas,  Archibald 
Armitage,  Paul 
Schenck,  Edwin  S. 
McCann,  Chas.  E.  F. 

Chicester,  Howard 
Palme,  Julius 
Hitchcock,  J.  F. 
Clarke,  T.  E. 

Donald,  James  M. 
Skinner,  William 
Nichols,  James  E. 
Pierson,  Lewis  E. 

Hutton,  Franklyn  H. 
Hutton,  Edward  F. 
Ellis,  George  A.,  Jr. 
Horton,  Harry  L. 


TABLE  40 

Murphy,  John  J. 
Smith,  R.  A.  C. 
Grifenhagen,  Max  S. 
Baker,  William  H. 

TABLE  41 

Townsend,  Rev.  S.  DeLancey 
Bryant,  Dr.  Joseph  T. 
Stern,  Louis 

Woodruff,  Hon.  Timothy  L. 
TABLE  42 

Schoonmaker,  J.  H. 
Schlesinger,  Leo. 
Hatfield,  Hon.  Charles  E. 
Stroebel,  E. 

TABLE  43 

Jones,  E.  Clarence 
Pulitzer,  Ralph 
Seymour,  E.  F. 
Flower,  Fred 
Seymour,  Julius  H. 

TABLE  44 

Pearson,  Dr.  Charles  E. 
Pearson,  John  B. 
Delafield,  Dr.  Francis 
Meyer,  Dr.  Willy 

TABLE  45 

Brooks,  Joseph  W. 
Whitmore,  D.  W. 
Grant,  RoUin  P. 
Dodge,  M.  Hartley 

TABLE  46 

Ely,  Dr.  Albert  H. 
Donahue,  James  P. 
Woolworth,  Fred  E. 
Rothschild,  Louis  F. 


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Eangsley,  Darwin  P. 
Crimmins,  John  D. 
Cram,  J.  Sergeant 
Bateson,  Charles  E. 


Whitmarsh,  T.  F. 
Nash,  Willis  G. 
Belding,  M.  M.,  Jr. 
Perkins,  Charles  E. 


Buel,  C.  C. 
Creelman,  James 
Harvey,  Col.  George 
Hester,  William 


Reisinger,  Hugo 
Simon,  Robert  E. 
Metz,  Herman 
Evans,  William  T. 


Childs,  William,  Jr. 
Balfe,  Harry 
Luke,  John  G. 
Taylor,  S.  F. 


TABLE  47 

Munn,  Dr.  J.  P. 
Appleton,  R.  Ross 
Morgan,  Edward  M. 
Sachs,  Samuel 

TABLE  48 

Cruikshank,  Warren 
Morse,  D.  P. 
Mitchell,  Sidney  Z. 
Seed,  John  H. 

TABLE  49 

McClure,  S.  S. 
Stoddard,  H.  L. 
Scribner,  A.  H. 
Kost,  F.  W. 

TABLE  50 

Severance,  C.  A. 
Rudolph,  Cuno  H. 
Starrett,  Paul 
Stevens,  John  F. 

TABLE  51 

Weiner,  B.  F. 
Williams,  H.  M. 
Gerry,  Robert  L. 


TABLE  52 

Finlay,  Charles  E.  Leipziger,  Henry  M. 

Cook,  Robert  Grier  McDougal,  James 

Schuyler,  Montgomery  Peirce,  John 

Harburger,  Julius 


Austin,  Robert  B. 
Walsh,  M.  P. 
Barr,  Lockwood 
Long,  John  Luther 


TABLE  53 

Owen,  F.  Cunliffe 
Reynolds,  Louis  H. 
Wheeler,  Edward  J. 
Gehring,  Charles  E. 


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Barnard,  W.  H. 
Imhoff,  C.  H. 
Bushnell,  Eric 
Ward,  H.  C. 


Sutton,  Frank 
Sutton,  Horace  L. 
Thompson,  William  R. 
Jaeger,  Dr.  Charles  H. 


Smith,  T.  R. 
Peple,  Edward 
Pennock,  H.  Hardcastle 
Edwards,  Geo.  Wharton 


TABLE  54 

Breed,  William  C. 
Klein,  Emil 
Burrell,  F.  A.  M. 
Schoonmaker,  Jacob  H. 

TABLE  55 

Tuthill,  A.  W. 
Snow,  Ellridge  G. 
Finkel,  Emil 
Thompson,  Burton 

TABLE  56 

Baker,  Ray  Stannard 
Cook,  Charles  Emerson 
Friedmann,  Dr.  Arthur  C.  H. 
Johnson,  Walter  A. 


TABLE  57 

Hearn,  George  A.  Apple,  Dr.  Henry  H. 

Boldt,  George  C.  Baldwin,  W.  D. 

Nissen,  Ludwig  Butler,  James  R. 

Johnson,  Dr.  Joseph  French      Flint,  Charles  R. 


Fiske,  Wilbur  C. 
Clarke,  Lewis  S. 
Green,  Robert  W. 
Westervelt,  A.  B. 


Cullen,  R.  J. 
Enright,  R.  E. 
McHenry,  Edwin  D. 
Schneider,  W.  F. 


von  der  Rapp,  Baron 
Webb,  Louis 
Wragge,  Captain 
Vanstone,  Noel 


TABLE  58 

Lincoln,  James  C. 
Day,  Joseph  P. 
Hatfield,  Joshua  A. 
Hilles,  Charles  D. 

TABLE  59 

Ellithorpe,  F.  T. 
Ellithorpe,  Gilbert  S. 
Provan,  David  B. 
Hopkins,  G.  M. 

TABLE  60 

Fosco,  Charles 
Garth,  Henry 
Williams,  John 
Stickel,  Frederick  G. 


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Hunt,  Dr.  Leigh 
Seamans,  C.  W. 
King,  Willard  V. 
Abbott,  Henry 


Boring,  William  A. 
Blashfield,  Edwin  H. 
Darbyshire,  Percy  W. 
Dittenhoefer,  Hon.  A.  J. 


TABLE  61 

Williams,  Dr.  H.  S. 
Marling,  Alfred  E. 
Mortimer,  George  T. 
Marshall,  James  Rush 

TABLE  62 

Finck,  Henry  T. 
Halsey,  Frank  W. 
Hatch,  Edward,  Jr. 
Hunt,  Leavitt,  J. 


Benjamin,  E.  S. 
Gladding,  W.  M. 
Lee,  Fred  G. 
Lott,  John  Z. 


Reardon,  J.  W. 
Martin,  John  J. 
Randall,  W.  L. 
MacLellan,  George 


Urban,  C.  Emlen 

TABLE  63 

Luke,  Adam  K. 
Snyder,  Alex  C. 
Worrell,  P.  B. 
Cochran,  James 

TABLE  64 

Fames,  John  C. 
Reilly,  William  J. 
Dobson,  Meade  C. 
Klein,  Emil 


TABLE  65 

MacMullen,  Rev.  Wallace  Cacavjo,  Joseph 
Hall,  Rev.  Dr.  Frank  Oliver  Tarbell,  Gage  E. 
Silverman,  Rev.  Joseph  Parington,  Dr.  F.  E. 


Thompson,  S.  A. 

Lamb,  Charles  R. 
Tietjen,  Christian  F. 
Leslie,  Warren 


Von  Briesen,  Arthur 
Hamilton,  W.  P. 
Felsinger,  William 
Harmon,  John  N. 


Ely,  Robert  Erskine 

TABLE  66 

Kimball,  Ingalls 
Bennett,  Elbert  A. 
Davies,  J.  Clarence 
Hitchcock,  S.  M. 

TABLE  67 

Pine,  John  B. 
Mead,  S.  C. 
Marks,  Marcus 
Ramsay,  J.,  Jr. 


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Hartfield,  William 
Hawley,  John  H. 
Nelke,  David  I. 
King,  Frederick  A. 

Luby,  James 
Merrill,  Bradford 
Janvier,  Thomas  A. 
Bruce,  H.  Addington 


Kennelly,  Bryan  L. 
Parish,  John  L. 
Leay craft,  J.  Edgar 
Pratt,  Sereno  S. 


Baker,  George  Barr 
Day,  Frank  Miles 
EUot,  Walter  G. 
Markham,  Edwin 


Barrett,  Alfred  M. 
McKinny,  William 
Ogden,  George  D. 
Flatten,  John  W. 


McHarg,  Ormsby 
Benton,  Col.  Everett  C, 
Cosby,  Col.  Spencer 
Brown,  Glenn 


Adams,  Edward  Dean 
Bache,  Rene 
Cashman,  Joseph 
Cook,  Walter 


TABLE  68 

White,  Horace 
Kunz,  Dr.  George  L. 
Houston,  Herbert  S. 
Williams,  George  V.  S. 

TABLE  69 

Simmons,  E.  A. 
Bushnell,  Ericcson  F. 
Chesebrough,  W.  H. 
Day,  W.  A. 

TABLE  70 

Reynolds,  Mryon  T. 
Walker,  Legare 
Winter,  Edwin  W. 
Bierck,  A.  B. 

TABLE  71 

Moffet,  Cleveland 
Quinn,  Thomas  C. 
Quint,  Wilder  Dwight 
Tesla,  Nicola 

TABLE  72 

Seitz,  Don 
Shaw,  F.  Angus 
Sleicher,  John  A. 
Muschenheim,  William  C. 

TABLE  73 

Coler,  Bird  S. 
Von  Helmolt,  Charles 
Black,  Col.  William  Murray 
Wilcox,  Hon.  W.  R. 

TABLE  74 

Yard,  Robert  Sterling 
Whiting,  Irving  S. 
Rouland,  Orlando 
Norton,  William 


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TABLE  75 

Cummings,  Geo.  E.  De  Berard,  Frederick  B. 

Davis,  Richard  Harding  Einhom,  Dr.  Max 

French,  Daniel  C.  Dunekna,  F.  A. 

Currey,  Jonathan  Partridge,  William  Ordway 


Adams,  Samuel 
Alexander,  John  W. 
Kelley,  Halsey  W. 
Jones,  W.  O. 


Kohn,  Harry  R. 
Kohns,  Lee 
Langill,  Charles  H. 
Meyers,  James  Cowden 


Carter,  P.  G. 
Matteson,  Warner  B. 
Ide,  John  Jay 
Hendricks,  J.  W. 


Bierck,  A.  B. 
EUiman,  Lawrence  B. 
Rice,  Hyand  P. 
Golding,  John  R. 


Freeman,  William  C. 
McLaughlin,  Frank 
Hardenbergh,  Louis 
McCrosson,  E. 


EUiman,  Douglas 
Krell,  Albert 
Harmon,  Clifford  B. 
Hill,  Oliver  B. 


TABLE  76 

Kiliani,  Dr.  Otto  T. 
Church,  Col.  William  E. 
Callahan,  D.  J. 
Buckley,  James 

TABLE  77 

MiUer,  H.  W. 
Morton,  William  C. 
McCooey,  John 
Oppenheim,  James 

TABLE  78 

Spencer,  George  F. 
Nelson,  M.  J. 
Rowntree,  Bernard 
Treadwell,  E.  A. 

TABLE  79 

Rascovar,  James 
Rascovar,  Frank  James 
Rascovar,  Harry 
Byrne,  J.  J. 

TABLE  80 

Markowitz,  A.  Lincoln 
Polhemus,  Henry  W. 
Tevis,  Charles  V. 
Dana,  Dwight 

TABLE  81 

Lyons,  Howard  J. 
Meader,  Herman  Lee 
Bennett,  Elbert  A. 
Hawley,  Charles  Beach 


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TABLE  82 


Ellison,  William  B. 
Fletcher,  F.  I. 
Gitterman,  A.  N. 
Loomis,  E.  E. 


Croxton,  S.  W. 
Robinson,  Edward 
Wyckoff,  F.  A. 
Schnitzer,  William  M. 

McCarroll,  William 
Paul,  Frederick  W. 
Peck,  F.  L. 
Plant,  Albert 

Tener,  Hampden  E. 
Rapp,  John  W. 
Powell,  William  H. 
Phillips,  Barnet 

Ball,  Alwyn,  Jr. 
Hancy,  Edward  J. 
Finegan,  Austin 
Hope,  W.  C. 

Compton,  William  N. 
Delaney,  John  H. 
Fisher,  Adolpho 
Handel,  George  A. 
Blauss,  John  Lincoln 

Bleeth,  Philip 
Crawford,  William 
Oberndorfer,  Nat. 
Tebbs,  Robert  W. 


Marsh,  Mr. 

McCreery,  J.  Crawford 
Horne,  Frank  A. 
Pease,  W.  Albert 

TABLE  83 

Scully,  P.  J. 
Smith,  P.  R. 
Wylde,  E. 
Smith,  W.  T. 

TABLE  84 

Scott,  Douglas  Mark 
Starkie,  John  W. 
Quinby,  J.  G. 
Shannon,  Wm.  E. 

TABLE  85 

Seldon,  Ch.  H. 
Truslow,  Arthur 
Orcutt,  B.  S. 
Peck,  George 

TABLE  86 

Morch,  Thomas 
Noyes,  Charles  F. 
Demorest,  Wm.  Curtis 
Mulligan,  Joseph  T. 

TABLE  87 

Wilmsen,  B. 
Holden,  Frank  H. 
Holden,  L.  C. 
Flynn,  W.  J. 

TABLE  88 

Newman,  W.  G. 
Sweet,  Benjamin  H. 
Duross,  Charles  E. 


